Re^6: perldoc Bold, Italic etc

If I run perldoc -oterm junk2
all I get is as below, with "ESC" in Inverse color (ie: not rendered graphically)

ESC[1mESC[1mBold headingESC[0mESC[0m
    *   ESC[4mItalic itemESC[0m

        Description of the first argument.

    *   ESC[4malso ItalicESC[0m

        Description of the second argument.

/tmp/cXitYT435j (END)
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As I said, only perldoc -oman junk2 actually renders the Bold, italic etc.

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Re^7: perldoc Bold, Italic etc by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2021 at 12:23 UTC
My guess is that you have another terminal now which isn't enabled to render escape sequences. But it's still guessing, not enough infos to tell and I don't have a Linux at hand to check Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^8: perldoc Bold, Italic etc by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2021 at 13:06 UTC
OK I checked with an old VM image with ubuntu14 something like `> PERLDOCDEBUG=2 perldoc tst.pod` [download] will show you plenty of details, like the found formatters and nroff binaries. This might give you a hint how the two systems are differing. (On a side note: the supposedly italic text was underlined in my terminal) <Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread> Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: perldoc Bold, Italic etc by miguelnixon (Novice) on Sep 17, 2021 at 16:14 UTC
Life is too short to fret over cosmetics (I retired from programming professionally more than 10 years ago) Anyhoo: the quick-fix is just to create an alias as I mentioned earlier. A little piece of Perly-bandaid and the problem has gone for me. ;-) Thanks so much for the comments & input!	[reply]