perldoc is broken in 9, 10 and CURRENT with "xterm" TERM

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 15 21:57:50 UTC 2015


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On 15.04.2015 19:35, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

>> "ESC[4mfieldsESC[24m") that do ESC[1mnot ESC[22minclude
>> 
>> Terminal tried is "xterm" (PuTTY and cygwin's rxtv) and "cygwin" 
>> (cygwin's ssh from console).
> 
> What does
> 
> echo $PAGER
> 
> say ?
  more
 Is it default? Or I have my login/profile scripts migrating with me
from 2.2.2? :)

> What does
> 
> echo $LESS
> 
> say ?
LESS: Undefined variable

>> I've found closed PR, which explains or fixes nothing:
>> 
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162463
> 
> If you use less as your PAGER and add an environment variable
> 
> export LESS=-r
> 
> then perldoc works. So the behaviour is not pretty, but there is a 
> solution.
 Nope :( At least, on 9-STABLE and 10-STABLE it does not help, it
looks the same.

 Set both PAGER to "less" and LESS to "-r" fix things on 9-STABLE, but
on 10-STABLE it makes things better but still wrong:

B<perldoc> [B<-h>] [B<-D>] [B<-t>] [B<-u>] [B<-m>] [B<-l>] [B<-F>]

P.S. It is funny when default shell on BSD is csh, everybody say
"export NAME=val" and not "setenv NAME val" :)

- -- 
// Lev Serebryakov AKA Black Lion
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