On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:40 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
> On 6/26/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:58 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
>>
>> > When I run the ri command in my xterm (or aterm), the text that's
>> > supposed to be monospaced always has plus signs around it. Same
>> with
>> > italics and _underscores_.
>> >
>> > Anyone know how I might get it to properly render (say, maybe
>> removing
>> > + signs, showing italics as underlined, and bold as bold)?
>>
>> ri -f ansi
>>
>> You shouldn't see +, _ or * in output text around words. If you do,
>> the formatting was applied incorrectly or RDoc has a bug. For
>> example, +:foo+ won't be marked up but +foo+ will.
>
> john@mango:~$ ri -f ansi File
> "/tmp/ri_12959.0" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
>
> And then when the page comes up, it's loaded with
>
> ---------------------------------------- ESC[1mClass: FileESC[m
> A ESC[36mFileESC[m is an abstraction of [snip]
>
> where the ESC's are reverse video.
>
> I'm on Debian Testing. This happens with both xterm and aterm.
With Terminal.app it works fine.
What is your $TERM?
$ echo $TERM
xterm-color
