* (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble
@ 2004-01-05 14:52 Richard Jolly
2004-01-05 15:03 ` Miek Gieben
2004-01-05 16:31 ` Wayne Davison
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Jolly @ 2004-01-05 14:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hi,
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.
For example:
> perldoc Getopt::Long
Getopt::Long(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Getopt::Long(3)
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
The escaped sections should be dispalyed as bold.
Any suggestions, pointers to documentation, etc, very welcome,
TIA,
Richard
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* Re: (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble
2004-01-05 14:52 (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble Richard Jolly
@ 2004-01-05 15:03 ` Miek Gieben
2004-01-05 16:31 ` Wayne Davison
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Miek Gieben @ 2004-01-05 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
[On 05 Jan, @15:52, Richard wrote in "(Newbie) perldoc ESC display t ..."]
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> For example:
>
> > perldoc Getopt::Long
> Getopt::Long(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Getopt::Long(3)
>
>
>
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
> Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
>
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>
>
> The escaped sections should be dispalyed as bold.
>
> Any suggestions, pointers to documentation, etc, very welcome,
maybe you should check the value of the TERM variable? Don't know if
cygwin uses that though. Maybe the current TERM cannot handle the
escape sequences?
I had the same problem (with bash on Linux), I gave up and now i'm
just exporting PERLDOC=-t with which everything is just in plain text,
regards,
Miek
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* Re: (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble
2004-01-05 14:52 (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble Richard Jolly
2004-01-05 15:03 ` Miek Gieben
@ 2004-01-05 16:31 ` Wayne Davison
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Wayne Davison @ 2004-01-05 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Jolly; +Cc: zsh-users
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
..wayne..
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* Re: (Newbie) perldoc ESC display trouble
@ 2004-01-06 16:06 Richard Jolly
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Jolly @ 2004-01-06 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wayne Davison; +Cc: zsh-users
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..
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