Re: Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes
-- Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote
(on Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 07:50 AM -0900):
> What's the appropriate way to view the Mutt manual
> (/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz)?
>
> My mutt (1.5.3-3, from sid) has a macro defined:
>
> zcat /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz | sensible-pager
>
> which pages the manual through less. I see lots of escape characters,
> which makes it really hard to read:
>
> Usage: charset-hook ESC[4maliasESC[24m ESC[4mcharsetESC[0m
I just use 'zless /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz'. For 'less', I've
used the traditional less tool as well as the less.sh VIM script; both
have worked for me.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net
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