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From: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE]" <dougj@iastate.edu>,
	"tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
	groff@gnu.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:50:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ploc2chj.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241005222207.eerdrgtsttmx42kb@illithid> (G. Branden Robinson's message of "Sat, 5 Oct 2024 17:22:07 -0500")

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> 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."

I don't see the problem, less supports -R for the last 25 years...

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah@vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-07 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-04 21:42 [TUHS] " Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-04 21:50 ` [TUHS] " Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2024-10-04 21:52   ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-04 22:10     ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-10-04 23:01     ` Clem Cole
2024-10-04 23:16       ` Clem Cole
2024-10-05  0:14 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-05  4:09   ` Peter Yardley
2024-10-05 13:14   ` Clem Cole
2024-10-05 22:22     ` G. Branden Robinson
     [not found]       ` <CAC20D2NgmzDxhQu5P5hjrZ3ciSv=KayiUg8GwsFRpu0wPasprw@mail.gmail.com>
2024-10-06  5:53         ` [TUHS] Why groff ms doesn't completely support historical documents G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-06 12:54       ` [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007) Jaap Akkerhuis
2024-10-06 15:11         ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-06 16:21           ` Ron Natalie
2024-10-09 21:02             ` Ron Natalie
2024-10-07 14:50       ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2024-10-08  6:45         ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-08 10:33           ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-08 10:49             ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-08 11:24               ` Jacobson, Doug W [E CPE] via TUHS
2024-10-16 21:40 ` Anton Shepelev

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