rick@bnrunix.UUCP (Richard Johns X7191) (07/19/89)
Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. Rick Johns
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (07/19/89)
In article <228@bnrunix.UUCP> rick@bnrunix.UUCP (Richard Johns X7191) wrote: >Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. Find or modify a terminfo file to do what you want. I'd figure out my terminal type, copy the corresponding file from /usr/lib/terminfo, convert it to ASCII with `untic', edit it, and compile it with `tic'. Once this is done, the TERMINFO environment variable will select the special version instead of the system's. Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-7277 karish@forel.stanford.edu
jk@hpfelg.HP.COM (John Kessenich) (07/19/89)
Look up fixman and catman in the manuals. I have not used these
commands for years, I just remember their names.
John Kessenichstroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan) (07/20/89)
>>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives >>me nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. > >Find or modify a terminfo file to do what you want. I'd figure out >my terminal type, copy the corresponding file from /usr/lib/terminfo, >convert it to ASCII with `untic', edit it, and compile it with `tic'. The terminfo entries used by man are smso, "enter standout mode", and rmso, "exit standout mode". You could either turn them off or change them to something besides inverse. Depending on the terminal you are using you may be able to substitute one of bold, half-brite, underline, or color. On a color hp display, I like to use color for standout. I put "smso=\E&v3S, rmso=\E&v0S" in terminfo, which displays man highlighting as yellow. Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com
paul@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul Bame) (07/20/89)
For ksh and sh, you can get non-highlighted stuff from man with $ TERM=dumb man ls and one which should work for all shells: $ man ls | cat but beware that there is enough stuff there that $ man ls | cat | more may restore highlighting (it did when I just tried it). -Paul Bame
mck@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Doug_McKenzie) (07/20/89)
>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. "man whatever | col -b | more" if you have the time. Doug McKenzie
ken@hpclkms.HP.COM (Ken Sumrall) (07/20/89)
>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. > >Rick Johns For what its worth, you could use: man $command | col -b | more Anyone have any other suggestions? Ken Sumrall | To be is to do. HP California Language Labs | To do is to be. ken%hpclove@hplabs.hp.com | To be or not to be. ...!hplabs!hpclove!ken | Do be do be do.
rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) (07/20/89)
The suggestion of building a new terminfo entry will change or stop highlighting from all terminfo/curses programs, not just man. If you dislike highlighting, that may be what you want. The suggestion of using fixman will remove the highlighting from the man files, and thus affect all users of man on your system. If that's what you want, it also has the advantage of saving some disk space. If you want to affect only the man command only when you run it, you can do man <whatever> | col -b | more #or other pager You can use an alias, shell function, or shell script to do this (depending on your choice of shell). Bob Lenk rml@hpfcla.hp.com hplabs!hpfcla!rml
crd@otter.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dalton) (07/20/89)
> Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives > me nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. > Rick Johns This is a "feature" (sigh) of `more', which is the default display program for man: it highlights characters which have been overstruck. There are two easy things you could try before you resort to diddling the terminfo files: 1) Try setting the environment variable MORE to the value "-u", and exporting it. MORE tailors more's default behaviour; -u means don't highlight overstruck characters. See more(1). 2) Less likely to work, but worth a try: some versions of man allow you to set an environment variable called MANPAGER to name a display program to use instead of more. I prefer pg to more, and it doesn't highlight things. I can't remember if this is in 6.2 though. Dontcha just love them features... Chris
ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (07/20/89)
>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. We are on a Series 500, HP-UX #5.21, so this may or may not work on your system. But ... you might try $man xxx|col -b|more This seems to work fine for us -- I ran a couple of tests ... This method does have one of the famous "hidden assumptions" -- see the man page (!) for col. I believe the assumption is that the first character output in an overstrike zone is the one you actually want to see. If you have the disk space, then catman+fixman will also solve the problem! Good luck. Ray Liere Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation voice: (503)657-7294 uucp: uunet!nwnexus!vantage!ray -or- hplabs!hpfcla!hpubvwa!vantage!ray Internet: vantage!ray@nwnexus.WA.COM
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat) (07/20/89)
>Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. > >Rick Johns For what its worth, you could use: man $command | col -b | more Anyone have any other suggestions? In /bin/sh: MORE=-u; export MORE In /bin/csh: setenv MORE -u I cannot understand why the man command doesn't use the pager specified in the PAGER environment variable -- yet another of HP's user-hostile programs, I guess. -- Govind N. Kamat College of Engineering kamat@uceng.UC.EDU University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Frank G. Fiamingo) (07/21/89)
You could try sending it through a filter to remove the control characters. Here's a shell script that I use to convert a man page to straight ascii. If this doesn't work for you, you could probably modify it such that it will. Frank frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu #! /bin/sh # Program to convert manual file to ascii printable form # case "$#" in 0) # no command line parameters # so obtain the file interactively # echo "Enter man command name: \c" read file ;; *) # process the file from the command line parameters # file=$1 ;; esac # man - $file > /tmp/man.$$ sed -e 's/.//g' /tmp/man.$$ rm /tmp/man.$$ ------------------------------------------ P.S. The controls characters may not show up on your screen. The next ot last line should be: sed -e 's/.^H//g' /tmp/man.$$ where ^^ represents the appropriate control character.
puglia@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Paul Puglia) (07/21/89)
What about using the ul commmnd with the -t and a terminal setting of dumb. The command will go something like man <whatever> | ul -t dumb This will turn them off.