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Branden Robinson" To: Leah Neukirchen Message-ID: <20241008064508.vtcvijqmedztrfeb@illithid> References: <20241005001433.7hukoga5bbbb3ygl@illithid> <20241005222207.eerdrgtsttmx42kb@illithid> <87ploc2chj.fsf@vuxu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6zmani2qm74y4zxv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ploc2chj.fsf@vuxu.org> Message-ID-Hash: XHWHDJT6TXKOH625PWGHYKVYHZOJ3RMC X-Message-ID-Hash: XHWHDJT6TXKOH625PWGHYKVYHZOJ3RMC X-MailFrom: g.branden.robinson@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: "Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE]" , "tuhs@tuhs.org" , groff@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007) List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --6zmani2qm74y4zxv Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007) MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Leah, At 2024-10-07T16:50:48+0200, Leah Neukirchen wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > Anton Shepelev wrote a summary I find admirably concise and blunt: > > > > "`grotty' is not an appendix to a pager, but a program for printing > > direct to the terminal. Most terminals support those basic ANSI > > control sequences, and many console programs freely use them. If a > > pager cannot transparently forward them to the terminal, it is a > > problem of the pager, not of `grotty', and having a broken -man > > configuration by default to just to appease `less' is stupid." >=20 > I don't see the problem, less supports -R for the last 25 years... Yeah. People's ire seems to rise from the fact that grotty's default is to assume SGR support and less's default is to not interpret SGR. I would prefer that `-R` were less's default; that would better serve the larger proportion of ECMA-48 video terminals using the pager versus those using it with (an emulator of) hardcopy terminals. Whatever transition process needs to commence for that to happen, I think it should. But in the meantime it's no great effort for me (nor for most people) to alias 'less' to 'less -R', write a shell function to do similarly, or just type three more characters. (For those requiring accessibility assistance, shell aliases and functions, programmable key bindings, and similar should serve as they do the merely impatient.) 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