Re: ri properly rendering monospace and italic in terminal window

On 6/26/06, Eric Hodel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:40 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> With Terminal.app it works fine.
>
> What is your $TERM?
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-color

$ echo $TERM
xterm