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From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is it possible to make `man´ work?  [Actually, 2 bugs on top of each other]
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 17:29:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221204012941.pey74sll74rqthc5@math.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221115064304.ftoun2yvkmavhkck@math.berkeley.edu>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:43:04PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> If I do
>   man man
> in a Windows’ console, I get garbage on screen before I press
>     -r

I confirm that this disappeared in the latest(=test) version of cygwin.

However, the following problem remains (although it is probably not
cygwin-specific):

> Contrary to
>   man man
> this cannot be overwritten by setting
>   set MANPAGER=less -sr
> .  (However, this may be overwritten by setting
>   set PAGER=less -sr
> )

Thanks,
Ilya

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-04  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-15  6:43 Ilya Zakharevich
2022-12-04  1:29 ` Ilya Zakharevich [this message]
2022-11-16 12:52 Ilya Zakharevich
2022-11-16 17:00 ` Thomas Wolff
2022-11-16 18:37   ` Corinna Vinschen

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