Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

Sat Dec 16 00:39:00 GMT 2006

Aaron Humphrey wrote on Friday, December 15, 2006 5:34 PM:
> On 12/15/06, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> I'm wondering whether this might be related to this old problem.
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00734.html
>> I was having man pages where bold was not turn off properly. If I
>> remember correctly, this suggestion fixed it for me.
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00552.html
>> May it would fix one or both problems.
>> Oddly enough, it seems to. In fact, just adding the '-c' option to
> NROFF in man.conf, without having to remove '-Tlatin' or add the '2>
> /dev/null' (which I'm not sure would work under tcsh anyway). 
> That is, man stops bolding too many things, and it turns off properly
> when I exit. 
>> So why do I have to 'revert to the old behaviour of grotty', which is
> what the nroff -c seems to be doing, before man will bold things
> properly? 

No idea. But does it fix the prompt problem? (Or has that already been
fixed and I missed it?)
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