Re: Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

said Oliver Fuchs (on 2003-03-18),

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Christopher Swingley wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual
> > (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)?
>
> 1) Running mutt and typing F1.
> 2) vim /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
> 3) gunzip /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz and then less
> /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt

Hi.

These solutions don't address the original question -  how to avoid seeing
the escape codes?

Geordie (who is also learning mutt and raises his eyebrows at the "sucks
less" claim - "this one sucks differently" might be more accurate. ;) )