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Re: Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...



On Tue Mar 18, 2003 at 10:15:30PM +0100, the boisterous
Mark Janssen <maniac@maniac.nl>
wrote to me:
> Sorry for not replying to the message and creating a new mail, but
> I allready deleted the original mails.
> 
> The escapes are for BOLD text, and by using zcat manual.txt.gz you will
> see the bold text, but it'll just scroll by too fast :).
> 
> 'less' is no help here, it also displays the escapes, but 'more'
> doesn't...
> 
> try it: zcat manual.txt.gz | more
> 
> And be happy... at least... somewhat happy... less would be better :)

more works for me. Should someone file a bug against mutt for the F1
hotkey?

so long
Thomas

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