[Nix-dev] Garbled man pages/incomplete environment

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Sun Jul 5 20:53:35 CEST 2015


Hi,

On 04/07/15 18:24, Jeffrey David Johnson wrote:

> Man pages are hard to read because they're full of control characters. For example:
> 
> NIXOS-REBUILD(8)              NixOS Reference Pages              NIXOS-REBUILD(8)
> 
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m

This can be a symptom of $PAGER not being set to "less -R".

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