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authorGravatar Sanne Wouda <sanne.wouda@gmail.com>2015-03-10 22:16:13 +0100
committerGravatar ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>2015-04-04 12:03:58 -0700
commitcad1dc529319c5c1bd47fb002723c97a6a828509 (patch)
tree312a084e4c8921fb86ccda37c965f6b2857be8e9 /share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish
parent900a8a140896fbac4c0b6215560ef620322634d2 (diff)
Fix #1978:"ul: unknown escape sequence" when asking for help
It seems that `ul` can't handle the escape sequences for bold text that `nroff` generates on my system. Fixed by either removing `| ul`, or adding `-c` to the `nroff` command. Needs testing for old (OSX?) versions of nroff.
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diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish b/share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish
index e21de74e..02bc499a 100644
--- a/share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function __fish_print_help --description "Print help message for the specified f
set cols (expr $cols - 4) # leave a bit of space on the right
set rLL -rLL=$cols[1]n
end
- set help (nroff -man -t $rLL "$__fish_datadir/man/man1/$item.1" ^/dev/null)
+ set help (nroff -man -c -t $rLL "$__fish_datadir/man/man1/$item.1" ^/dev/null)
# The original implementation trimmed off the top 5 lines and bottom 3 lines
# from the nroff output. Perhaps that's reliable, but the magic numbers make