Bug 82740
| Summary: | extraneous ^H in emacs man | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb> |
| Component: | groff | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | CC: | ejb, twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-10 13:33:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 79579 | ||
^H does not appear to be in the source... looks like a groff problem. Seems fixed now. Several groff/less/... man page display bugs have been fixed in the mean time. Do you still see this problem? I'm no longer seeing this with the latest packages. |
Description of problem: When running M-x man in emacs, resulting pages display with extraneous ^H (backspace) characters embedded. I'm not sure whether this is an emacs problem or a man problem, but a similar bug in the past ended up being a problem with /usr/share/misc/man.config. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs 21.2 or later (happens with current emacs beta) man-1.5k-2 groff-1.18.1-7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. M-x man rpm RET Actual results: ^H is visible Expected results: Output should be clean. Additional info: M-x man rpm and M-x man mkisofs both exhibit this problem. M-x ls does not. Perhaps that can provide some clue as to what groff output is not getting interpreted correctly.