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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/man.el | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |