Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:43:39 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: d@delphij.net, ru@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: weekly_catman not generating the right result? Message-ID: <4E354DFB.1020206@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <20110731121732.GB11991@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <4E3510CC.8090300@delphij.net> <20110731121732.GB11991@acme.spoerlein.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/31/11 05:17, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 01:22:36 -0700, Xin LI wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just noticed that weekly_catman is not generating the right >> result, e.g. instead of a highlight NAME, it gives 1mNAME0m (looks >> like the escape character is missing here). >> >> Is this a known issue? > > Now it is :) > > This is due to the recent changes that made groff emit ANSI > sequences and catman(1) is still putting col(1) in the pipe, which is > not really required and gobbles up part of the escape sequences. > > Please try the attached patch. Thanks. Thanks, that fixes the problem. Note that I noticed that setting PAGER to less won't work. Looking at my 8.2-RELEASE system, the rendered catpages are using ^H when highlighting while on -CURRENT it's an escape sequence (but I didn't see any change to nroff script nor catman itself)... Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> https://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJONU37AAoJEATO+BI/yjfBwwkH/2lBNu/Qk+kfYqlknmBN6/f6 1JfwR/oL8ByYwc1wfDVNH9dHFgwwsmkwOja+InJNeSD62Vld8A5kLw7+AopWvsWu WRSu24qq6mP4l82K9mnClHgHEnQxmXa3AIbYcGqiTF1T8AqzVp9iqZfHnC6FDcNI l7EQZZdp3x2Uvx5ATPuTsPaZbWs5gdUC2gKEWBVlUzoIK/U2zQtBw92HbYuOuMcR dViuYNJqetuABre+m0IqslQktmd3/pIwwlJJVoDJ3KYG2SFqZTS1a4cM8dS+dX1U 8JnICR1KfkKiwKyh0QSpnoTtgy2WoCVBb5gwzXofsBZujkUbMCtkChgSxf0ulM8= =pw5b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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