Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery 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 Lines: 28 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. -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] \ ncoast 216 781 6201 [Redistributable only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] \ 2400 bd. Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,{well,ihnp4}!hoptoad,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <>