G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev:
> > `export | grep -i sgr' finds nothing, unfortu-
> > nately. Where else can I look for the reason of
> > -man treating my virtual terminal as a printer?
> > Once I find it, I will bring it up with the ad-
> > ministrator of that system, and then perhaps
> > with the distro maintainers.
>
> If you're still using groff 1.22.4, some distribu-
> tions used a device control command to tell
> grotty(1) to shut off SGR support.
Indeed. /etc/groff/man.local contains:
. if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
. output x X tty: sgr 0
so the solution is to define a GROFF_SGR evironment
variable. I wonder what Debian user or developer
disliked those SGR sequences emitted by groff...
