From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is it possible to make `man´ work? [Actually, 2 bugs on top of each other]
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:00:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c79d49c8-78e6-c715-2694-9b7dee9b71b5@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221116125216.e3qzw3ombyj4o2ux@math.berkeley.edu>
Am 16/11/2022 um 13:52 schrieb Ilya Zakharevich:
> If I do
> man man
> in a Windows’ console, I get garbage on screen before I press
> -r
Windows console is what you start with Win+R cmd, right? Works fine for me.
Why don't you run cygwin programs in a proper cygwin environment to
avoid such trouble?
>
> 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
> )
>
> In my particular setup, it would be enough if the bug with MANPAGER is
> fixed. However, it seems that setting the default man’s pager to
> less -sr
> should be a much better solution.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ilya
>
> P.S. It seems that the mailing list does not allow attaching the output!
> So I retry with a shortened version…
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-16 12:52 Ilya Zakharevich
2022-11-16 17:00 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2022-11-16 18:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
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2022-11-15 6:43 Ilya Zakharevich
2022-12-04 1:29 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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