Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:1760 comp.unix.wizards:22787 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!uswat!jbw From: jbw@zeb.uswest.com (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 01:43:20 GMT References: <4811@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <8497@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <814@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> <602@inpnms.ROCKVILLE.DG.COM> Sender: news@uswat.UUCP Organization: U S West Advanced Technologies Lines: 27 In-reply-to: logan@rockville.dg.com's message of 3 Jul 90 22:07:16 GMT In article <602@inpnms.ROCKVILLE.DG.COM> logan@rockville.dg.com (James L. Logan) writes: In article <814@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes: # In article <8497@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV # (Larry Wall) writes: # | [ . . . ] People really don't know # |how to use computers yet. Sigh.) # # [ . . . ] There really should be an option of # the pager to compare modulo underlining/fat printing. Use the public-domain pager called "less". It can be configured to ignore underlining, boldfacing, etc. In fact, I use it to scan the perl man pages myself. I like to look at the man page from inside GNU Emacs (where I can use find-tag to jump to the relevant source code with the touch of a key). So I use the Emacs function nuke-nroff-bs to clean up the man page. I've also got a version of nuke-nroff-bs that also correctly strips all types of man page headers and footers, if anyone wants one. On a separate issue, does anyone know where less version 123 is archived? I have a copy I can email to people, but I'd prefer to refer people to a convenient archive. I looked for one a few months ago, but I couldn't find less version 123 anywhere. -- Joe Wells