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alexanderyanin

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[SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

All man pages are displayed incorrectly. Extra characters like '4m' or '1m' have been added to each instruction. It is impossible to use such instructions.

What could be the reason?

Last edited by alexanderyanin (2023-10-30 06:29:55)

alexanderyanin

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

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skunktrader

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

Your terminal program is not interpreting escape codes correctly

alexanderyanin

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

How fix it?

I use alacrity

Last edited by alexanderyanin (2023-10-27 09:15:54)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

Pager?
Does this happen in an xterm?
Can you

print '\e[1mfoo\e[0m'

Post the output of

printenv

cross-ref: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287185

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alexanderyanin

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

First comand

print '\e[1mfoo\e[0m'
bash: print: command not found

Second command

printenv
SHELL=/bin/bash
WINDOWID=12582914
COLORTERM=truecolor
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
HISTSIZE=10000
READER=zathura
CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=/run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
HISTTIMEFORMAT=%Y-%m-%d %T
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WRITE=c29tZSAyMDAwMDAgMjAwMDAwMAA=
EDITOR=vim
XDG_SEAT=seat0
PWD=/home/avr
LOGNAME=avr
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=778
XAUTHORITY=/home/avr/.Xauthority
WINDOWPATH=1
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
HOME=/home/avr
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
MEMORY_PRESSURE_WATCH=/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/system-getty.slice/getty@tty1.service/memory.pressure
CLICOLOR=1
INVOCATION_ID=725669c3465b45728a494f0e20e02daa
ALACRITTY_SOCKET=/run/user/1000/Alacritty-:0-1296.sock
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-256color
USER=avr
VISUAL=vim
DISPLAY=:0
SHLVL=3
XDG_VTNR=1
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
PS1=\[\e[31m\][\[\e[m\]\[\e[33m\]\u\[\e[m\]\[\e[32m\]@\[\e[m\]\[\e[34m\]\h\[\e[m\] \[\e[35m\]\w\[\e[m\]\[\e[31m\]]\[\e[m\]\$
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.archlinux.org
LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/avr/.bin/:/home/avr/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/:/home/avr/.local/bin:/home/avr/.bin/:/home/avr/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin/:/home/avr/.local/bin
ALACRITTY_LOG=/tmp/Alacritty-1296.log
HISTFILESIZE=10000
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
RANGER_LOAD_DEFAULT_RC=false
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/avr
ALACRITTY_WINDOW_ID=12582914
_=/usr/bin/printenv

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

zshism, try "printf" instead

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alexanderyanin

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

If you use printf you get this

[avr@ibm ~]$ printf '\e[1mfoo\e[0m'
foo[avr@ibm ~]$

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

Isn't this just the groff issue?

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alexanderyanin

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Re: [SOLVED] man-pages displayed incorrectly

I don't know how, but everything displays correctly now. I have not changed any settings. Maybe a fix has arrived with the next update.