On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 12:13:03 +0100
Josuah Demangeon <mail_AT_josuah.net> wrote:
> On February 4, 2017 10:49:52 AM GMT+01:00, "Mattias
> Andrée" <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 10:22:24 +0100
> > Josuah Demangeon <mail_AT_josuah.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On February 4, 2017 2:03:16 AM GMT+01:00, "Mattias
> > > Andrée" <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, this is embarrassing, I forgot to check you
> > > > program before starting on ul(1). However, I just
> > > > ran
> > > >
> > > > MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=y man man | ./iode
> > >
> > > I made escape sequences tooglable with flags, maybe
> > > that is the reason.
> > >
> > > You can try enabling colour interpreting with +R (or
> > > disabling it with -R). Either as command-line flag
> > > or as keybinding.
> >
> > Silly me, I thought it was -R.
>
> It is what is written on the man page and what less
> does. I should update it.
>
> Maybe -R is a better idea. Maybe it is what sbase used
> to have.
>
> >It works, but if you place
> > util-linux's ul(1) between man(1) and iode you will see
> > a problem.
>
> I see ^O (shift-in) characters at the end of bold
> sequences. Is that what you mean? Less does not handle
> these neither, but I can, I could just set it to ignore
> them.
For some reason ul(1) produces ESC ( B, which means switch
to US ASCII character set. These can be ignored, and less(1)
does ignore them.
>
> > I'm working on libgraffiti which ul(1) will use, it will
> > support all escape sequences (I have read long lists of
> > escape sequences to find a pattern that recognise all
> > of them) along will things like combining marks. This
> > library will also be useful for pagers, terminals, and
> > similar programs.
> >
> > iode seem to be able to do everything needed to view
> > man pages, but unlike ul(1) and most(1) it doesn't
> > support e.g. `printf 'aaa\r___'`, but it doesn't have
> > to as ul(1) can be used.
>
> This will be very convenient, I was not aware of such a
> diversity
>
> > I would recommend making +R the default, what would
> > probably reduce confusion for users.
>
> Yes, I will change it after line folding.
>
> Do not hesitate to ask for explanation if something is
> unclear in the source.
>
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