Showing posts with label MANOPT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MANOPT. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

On garbled manpages

My man pages were garbled especially when opened in a fullscreen aterm.
See the screenshot.


It turns out that it's the "auto-hyphenation at line breaks" that breaks it. Disabling it fixes this. Do this by adding "--no-hyphenation" or "--nh" to your MANOPTS env variable.
Here's my .profile
...
export MANOPT="--no-hyphenation"
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