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.
^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.