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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: suggestions for manual-entry
Message-ID: <2851@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 23:18:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2851
Posted: Fri Jul 10 23:18:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 15:55:16 EDT
References: <1341@cullvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1341@cullvax.UUCP> by drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley):
+---------------
| While we're at it, how about fixing cleaning:
|
| Remove _^H (or ^H_, or whatever)
| Remove .^H. (when the first and 3rd chars are the same, is
| used for "boldface", or something)
| Change |^H^ to ^ (some sort of fake uparrow)
|
| Actually, somebody should check how man *really* emits these things
| first!
+---------------
System III and System V nroff generate output that is readable past col -b;
as a result a manual page can be makde readable by deleting all instances of
the regexp ".^H". Being a Jove user, that's M-X replace-search .^Q^H^M^M
-- for GNU, I *think* it's (please no flames, GNU doesn't work under System
III so ncoast can't run it): (replace-regexp ".\C-h" "").
Assuming that "col -b" compatibility is considered preferable, most nroff's
should work in the same way -- and in that case the command used to generate
the man page could pipe through "col -b" and save Emacs some trouble.
--
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