Bug 1006

Summary:	less cannot handle colored fonts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eugene Koontz <ekoontz>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eugene Koontz 2002-03-07 14:58:51 UTC

To reproduce :

emerge --help | less

You will see :
ESC[01mYou can also type "emerge --help system", "emerge --help rsync" and
"emerge --help config" for additional help.ESC[0m

The "ESC[01m"'s are colors I believe, but less cannot deal with them.
more handles them fine, but I like to use less...

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-07 15:00:47 UTC

This is not a bug.  Use "less -r", as described in the man page.