Re: -man fails to use ANSI commands

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Anton,

At 2023-11-21T11:36:09+0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev:
> >    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312935
[...]
> > The  more  I learned, the more I realized just how
> > wrong that guy was.
> 
> I have read it and agree with you.  `grotty' is  not
> an  appendix  to a pager, but a program for printing
> direct to  the  terminal.   Most  terminals  support
> those basic ANSI control sequences, and many console
> programs freely use them.  If a pager cannot  trans-
> parently forward them to the terminal, it is a prob-
> lem of the pager, not of `grotty', and having a bro-
> ken -man configuration by default to just to appease
> `less' is stupid.

This is an excellent distillation of my lengthy deconstruction of that
guy's own undisciplined rant.  I appreciate you expressing it so
economically.

Regards,
Branden

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