Re: Mutt manual.txt.gz strange escapes

[Cameron Hutchison <camh+dl@xdna.net>]

Once upon a time Geordie Birch said...
> said Oliver Fuchs (on 2003-03-18),
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Christopher Swingley wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> 
> These solutions don't address the original question -  how to avoid seeing
> the escape codes?

less -r
or
less -R