Re: man-pages input, how to forward esc seq to tty output dev

HI Branden,

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM G. Branden Robinson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Phi,
>
> Nothing defines strings named `red`, `green`, or `blue` by default.
> You'll have to do so yourself, or use a different escape sequence to
> access these color names, which are defined in a different name space.
>


> The grotty(1) man page has an extensive example.
>

Jeez, I red that but didn't thought about actually cut/paste it.
I was more focusing on man like .XYZ macro's to use and was digging in all
the .tmac I got in /us/share...


> Notice the `\m` and `\M` escape sequences.
>
> You might want to avoid going through man(1) if you're using colors;
> I've read that some implementations deliberately introduce an SGR
> stripper to the rendering pipeline.
>

Ha good point, I was suspecting that. Well I need man(1) (I guess) because
I need all the tools around (mandb(1) for instance), but you put me back on
track, I guess the trick is to pass some protocol through man(1) (like the
char<bs>char for bold, char<bs>'_' for underline etc), skip over SGR
killers, then let the backend end handle it (like grotty(1) for the man
pipe or ul(1) for the CLI explicit pipe), I already have my own grotty so I
should go this path then.

I look into that.

Thanx