mangled output from perldoc

Mark E. Perkins mep1 at sixshooterpeaks.net
Tue Jan 11 15:01:23 PST 2011


On 2011/01/10 07:27, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>>
>> When I run 'perldoc', text that should show as underlined or bold is
>> displayed with surrounding escape sequences that should control text
>> formatting:
> 
> setenv LESS -R
> 
> (this fixes it for me)

Works for me, as well.  I don't understand why I need that for the
MacPorts-installed Perl and not for any other I've tried, but I'll see if I
can track that down another day.

Cheers,
Mark


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