ESC[1m when viewing MAN pages Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.sudo su 2.man fc 3. Actual Results: FC(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual FC(1P) ESC[1mPROLOGESC[0m This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corre- sponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. Expected Results: FC(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual FC(1P) PROLOG This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corre- sponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. somehow PAGER is missing from the enviroment when user makes sudo su you may work around this problem by adding PAGER /usr/bin/less -isR to /etc/man.conf file
The environment is reset by sudo. Consult `man sudoers' on env_reset or use a proper way to become root (`su').
This bug occurs because app-admin/sudo-1.7.2_p1 won't forward LESS and PAGER enviroment variables (any reasons why it shouldn't?). You can fix this problem by adding the following line in sudoers Defaults env_reset,env_keep+="PAGER, LESS" This behavior differs from app-admin/sudo-1.6.9_p16 that would forward PAGER and LESS variables.
