Bug 82740 – extraneous ^H in emacs man

Bug 82740 - extraneous ^H in emacs man

Summary:	extraneous ^H in emacs man

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	groff (Show other bugs)
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Version:	phoebe
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Blocks:	79579
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Reported:	2003-01-25 11:33 EST by Jay Berkenbilt
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-02-10 08:33:31 EST
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Description Jay Berkenbilt 2003-01-25 11:33:38 EST

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.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-01-29 13:03:41 EST

^H does not appear to be in the source... looks like a groff problem.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-02-06 04:43:21 EST

Seems fixed now.  Several groff/less/... man page display bugs have been fixed
in the mean time.

Do you still see this problem?

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2003-02-10 08:33:31 EST

I'm no longer seeing this with the latest packages.

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