Re^6: perldoc 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) lanx@ubuntu14-large:/tmp$ PERLDOCDEBUG=2 perldoc tst.pod New Pod::Perldoc object Pod::Perldoc=HASH(0xfc2cb8) 'opt_o_with: Noting "text" as desired output format... 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Totext 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Totext 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToText 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToTEXT 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::Text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::TEXT 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Text 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::TEXT 'opt_o_with: Noting "man" as desired output format... 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Toman 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Toman 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToMan 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToMAN 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::Man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::MAN 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Man 'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::MAN Beginning process. Args: tst.pod Okay, no PERLDOC setting in ENV. Args right before switch processing: tst.pod 'GetOptsOO::getopts: Starting switch processing. Scanning arguments [ +tst.pod] 'GetOptsOO::getopts: Ending switch processing. Args are [tst.pod] wit +h 0 errors. Args after switch processing: tst.pod 'process: /usr/bin/perldoc => Pod::Perldoc v3.19 'process: 'find_good_formatter_class: Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToMan versio +n 3.19 successfully loaded! 'find_good_formatter_class: Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::T +oMan 'grand_search_init: Searching for tst.pod 'grand_search_init: Found as tst.pod DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/groff DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/groff DEBUG Found /usr/bin/groff DEBUG Looking for /sbin/groff DEBUG Looking for /bin/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/groff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/groff DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/nroff DEBUG Found /usr/bin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /sbin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /bin/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/nroff DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/nroff DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /sbin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /bin/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/mandoc DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/mandoc DEBUG Using /usr/bin/groff DEBUG Pod::Man switches are [] DEBUG Parsing tst.pod DEBUG Done parsing tst.pod DEBUG Writing podman.out.23829.txt with Pod::Man output DEBUG Filtering through /usr/bin/groff DEBUG Found groff 1.22.2 DEBUG render is /usr/bin/groff DEBUG render options are -man -Kutf8 -Tutf8 -rLL=199n DEBUG Writing to pipe to /usr/bin/groff DEBUG Writing chunk 1.022705078125 DEBUG Checking read DEBUG Writing chunk 2.022705078125 DEBUG Checking read DEBUG Done writing DEBUG Done reading. Output is 625 bytes DEBUG Output: ---- TST(1) + User Contributed Perl Documentation + TST(1) Bold heading · Italic item Description of the first argument. · also Italic Description of the second argument. perl v5.18.2 + 2021-09-01 + TST(1) ---- DEBUG filter_nroff is not set, so not filtering DEBUG Found groff 1.22.2 tst.pod isn't a temp file, so not unlinking. Finished writing to /tmp/6Dk7gFvniR. 'page: About to try calling /usr/bin/sensible-pager /tmp/6Dk7gFvniR lanx@ubuntu14-large:/tmp$ [download] 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]