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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2008-10-16 07:18:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2008-10-16 07:18:04 +0000 |
| commit | 3d56260a0bee73719dca5a39aa562cebadfa4331 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a1a63bfff3f1384d895eaf4567d7eaba97c901e /lisp/man.el | |
| parent | 2d7752a0d322db32eed4d67ca5cdf988b2427204 (diff) | |
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(Man-getpage-in-background): Force recent `man's to output
escape sequences even when stdout is not a tty. (Bug#1142)
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diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el index 353a9032992..5b77b0b12d6 100644 --- a/lisp/man.el +++ b/lisp/man.el @@ -829,6 +829,10 @@ all sections related to a subject, put something appropriate into the (Man-width (frame-width)) ((window-width)))))) (setenv "GROFF_NO_SGR" "1") + ;; Since man-db 2.4.3-1, man writes plain text with no escape + ;; sequences when stdout is not a tty. In 2.5.0, the following + ;; env-var was added to allow control of this (see Debian Bug#340673). + (setenv "MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING" "1") (if (fboundp 'start-process) (set-process-sentinel (start-process manual-program buffer |