weekly_catman not generating the right result?

[Xin LI]

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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,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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