Re: ri properly rendering monospace and italic in terminal window

On 6/26/06, Eric Hodel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:58 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
>
> > When I run the ri command in my xterm (or aterm), the text that's
> > supposed to be monospaced always has plus signs around it. Same with
> > italics and _underscores_.
> >
> > Anyone know how I might get it to properly render (say, maybe removing
> > + signs, showing italics as underlined, and bold as bold)?
>
> ri -f ansi
>
> You shouldn't see +, _ or * in output text around words.  If you do,
> the formatting was applied incorrectly or RDoc has a bug.  For
> example, +:foo+ won't be marked up but +foo+ will.

john@mango:~$ ri -f ansi File
"/tmp/ri_12959.0" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?

And then when the page comes up, it's loaded with

---------------------------------------- ESC[1mClass: FileESC[m
     A ESC[36mFileESC[m is an abstraction of [snip]

where the ESC's are reverse video.

I'm on Debian Testing. This happens with both xterm and aterm.

Now, trying a different option:

ri -f bs File

works great though. Thanks!

---John