Bug 20654

Summary: bash doc files do not contain highlighted text
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael Jennings (KainX) <mej>
Component: bashAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Michael Jennings (KainX) 2000-11-10 18:36:31 UTC 
Someone at RedHat (apparently Dale Lovelace) thought it would be a good
idea to remove the ^H characters from the bash-doc files.  Here is the
relevant changelog entry:

* Fri Sep 14 1999 Dale Lovelace <dale>
- Remove annoying ^H's from documentation

What Dale obviously doesn't realize is that the ^H characters are there to
provide bold type and make the documentation read like a man page (with
syntax highlighting and such).  Stripping those ^H characters makes all the
text plain and harder to read.

This was also a problem in 6.x
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-11-16 12:21:48 UTC 
Fixed in 2.04-13. (Delayed because I wanted to give dale a chance to comment on this).