perldoc is broken in 9, 10 and CURRENT with "xterm" TERM

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2015/04/15 17:26, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> 
>  perldoc from perl 5.16 and perl 5.18 on 9, 10 and CURRENT shows ESC
> codes like this:
> 
> "ESC[4mfieldsESC[24m") that do ESC[1mnot ESC[22minclude
> 
>  Terminal tried is "xterm" (PuTTY and cygwin's rxtv) and "cygwin"
> (cygwin's ssh from console).
> 
>  Adding screen or tmux in mix doesn't help, either.
> 
>  I've found closed PR, which explains or fixes nothing:
> 
>  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162463

As a workaround, add this to your environment:

PERLDOC_PAGER='less -+C -E -R'

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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