[PLUG] a question which has stumped the finest minds
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Fri Nov 7 11:50:02 UTC 2003
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Carla Schroder wrote:
> How do I enable underlined words in the console? When I read man pages
> in an xterm, certain words are underlined. But opening the same man page
> in a console, the underlines are not there. (for additional amusement,
> the underlined words are called "italic")
This is pretty simple, but have you compared your TERM variable? I
believe this is where man decides which escape sequences to send to the
controlling tty.
Oh, but you'll never see this message, so fuck you.
J.
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