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Re: address@hidden: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs]


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: address@hidden: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs]
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:47:53 +0100 (CET)

> > The easiest way currently is to use `setenv' and set the
> > environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR to 1 (within Emacs) in case the
> > man program hasn't been configured already to not use SGR.  The
> > proper way is to make Emacs understand SGR escape sequences.
> 
> Why does nroff use SGR when outputting to Emacs?

In newer versions of groff there is an option `-c' for nroff to not
use SGR.  This is not yet supported in Emacs.  But for this particular
problem it doesn't help since Emacs uses the `man' program for
formatting man pages.


    Werner




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