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From: Richard Jolly <richardjolly@mac.com>
To: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:06:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14648408.1073405190018.JavaMail.richardjolly@mac.com> (raw)

 
On Monday, January 05, 2004, at 04:31PM, Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:52:55PM +0000, Richard Jolly wrote:
>> I've recently switched to zsh on cygwin. I get display trouble in the
>> form of expanded escape characters, ie ESC[1m Some Text [0m, when
>> using perldoc.
>
>Perldoc is running "less", which defaults to displaying the control
>characters visibly.  It needs the -R option to allow it to display ANSI
>control sequences directly to the terminal.  You can type the option
>after perldoc/less is running to test that this fixes the problem for
>you, and then set it in your environment in your .zshrc (and set a few
>other options while you're at it) for a permanent solution:
>
>    export LESS=mqeisz-2XR


Thanks - this works perfectly. I like the window scrolling adjustment as well.

Much appreciated,

Richard

>..wayne..


             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-06 16:06 Richard Jolly [this message]
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2004-01-05 14:52 Richard Jolly
2004-01-05 15:03 ` Miek Gieben
2004-01-05 16:31 ` Wayne Davison

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