Re: -man fails to use ANSI commands

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Anton,

At 2023-11-20T18:38:19+0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev:
> > If you're still using groff 1.22.4, some distribu-
> > tions  used  a  device  control  command  to  tell
> > grotty(1) to shut off SGR support.
> 
> Indeed. /etc/groff/man.local contains:
> 
>              .  if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
>              .    output x X tty: sgr 0
> 
> so the solution is to define a GROFF_SGR  evironment
> variable.   I  wonder  what Debian user or developer
> disliked those SGR sequences emitted by groff...

Well, here's one of them.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312935

...with my lengthy rebuttal and defense of groff's behavior.

The more I learned, the more I realized just how wrong that guy was.

Regards,
Branden

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