Re: ri properly rendering monospace and italic in terminal window

Hello !

> > > 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.

I think the problem is that the output is being automatically send to the pager, less. Try this:

ri -f ansi -T File

If the display in the terminal is right, try then

ri -f ansi -T File | less -R

The -T options says to send to standard output instead of a pager. The -R option of less asks him to interpret the ansi character sequences.

Enjoy !

Vince