nroff -mandoc | more no longer works

[Julian Elischer]

I also use this line for testing man page edits.  It will be a very 
sad thing if it's been broken in 9.0.


On 8/14/11 8:29 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> I'm guessing this relates to nroff/groff tweaks, but I was a bit 
> unhappy to learn that the command I've used for the last decade to 
> render man pages while editing them (nroff -mandoc foo.1 | more) no 
> longer works (output below).
>
> It seems likely this has to do with teaching groff to use ANSI 
> escape codes that more, by default, rejects.  I'm aware there are 
> lots of other command lines I could use, but it seems unfortunate 
> that this is broken -- possibly more should accept more escape codes 
> in its default configuration, or nroff should generate fewer of them?
>
> (I'd love to see this fixed for 9.0)
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> robert at cinnamon-freebsd:/usr/src/lib/libc/sys> nroff -mandoc dup.2 | 
> more
> DUP(2)                    FreeBSD System Calls 
> Manual                   DUP(2)
>
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>      ESC[1mdupESC[22m, ESC[1mdup2 ESC[22m-- duplicate an existing 
> file descriptor
>
> ESC[1mLIBRARYESC[0m
>      Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
>
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>      ESC[1m#include <unistd.h>ESC[0m
>
>      ESC[4mintESC[0m
>      ESC[1mdupESC[22m(ESC[4mintESC[24m ESC[4molddESC[24m);
>
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