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From: crd@otter.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Inverse Characters in man
Message-ID: <2980005@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 20 Jul 89 08:12:21 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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> Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man?  It drives
> me nuts.  For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2.  Thanks.

> Rick Johns

This is a "feature" (sigh) of `more', which is the default display
program for man:  it highlights characters which have been overstruck.
There are two easy things you could try before you resort to diddling
the terminfo files:

    1) Try setting the environment variable MORE to the value "-u", and
       exporting it.  MORE tailors more's default behaviour; -u means
       don't highlight overstruck characters.  See more(1).

    2) Less likely to work, but worth a try:  some versions of man allow
       you to set an environment variable called MANPAGER to name a
       display program to use instead of more.  I prefer pg to more,
       and it doesn't highlight things.  I can't remember if this is in
       6.2 though.

Dontcha just love them features...

Chris