[TUHS] Old troff files (1988-2007)

[Leah Neukirchen]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com> writes:

> Anton Shepelev wrote a summary I find admirably concise and blunt:
>
> "`grotty' is not an appendix to a pager, but a program for printing
> direct to the terminal.  Most terminals support those basic ANSI
> control sequences, and many console programs freely use them.  If a
> pager cannot transparently forward them to the terminal, it is a
> problem of the pager, not of `grotty', and having a broken -man
> configuration by default to just to appease `less' is stupid."

I don't see the problem, less supports -R for the last 25 years...

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