Re: address@hidden: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs]

[Stefan Monnier]

> 
> > groff version 1.18.1 gives wrongly formatted man-pages, thus not
> > letting emacs display escape sequences correctly. With earlier groff
> > versions, it works. Setting '(Man-fontify-manpage-flag nil) in my
> > .emacs file is a way around this problem, but it's kind of ugly.
> 
> IIRC, this has already been answered on the emacs-devel list.
> 
> The easiest way currently is to use `setenv' and set the environment
> variable GROFF_NO_SGR to 1 (within Emacs) in case the man program
> hasn't been configured already to not use SGR.  The proper way is to
> make Emacs understand SGR escape sequences.

Why does nroff use SGR when outputting to Emacs ?
Does Emacs pass a TERM var that indicates that SGR codes are supported ?
If so, Emacs should be fixed, otherwise groff should be fixed.


        Stefan