Re: ri properly rendering monospace and italic in terminal window

On 6/27/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  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

Sweet! That way, rather than bold and underlined, I get *color*. Nice! :)

>  If the display in the terminal is right, try then
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> 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.

Yup. That works.

>  Enjoy !

Enjoying! Thanks Vince. :)

---John