Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work

[Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:53:53 -0500

 Agreed that apropos -p is pretty much useless for me, due to all the
 ESC codes being displayed. E.g., if TERM=3Dxterm and PAGER=3Dless, =
 apropos
 -p usb displays:
 
 ESC[4musbESC[24m (ESC[4m4ESC[24m)       ESC[4mUniversal Serial Bus =
 driverESC[24m
 ...ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m serial adapter uchcom(4) WinChipHead CH341/340 =
 based ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m serial adapter ucom(4) ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m tty =
 support ucycom(4) Cypress microcontroller based ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m =
 serial adapter uftdi(4) FT8U100AX ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m serial adapter =
 ugensa(4) ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m generic serial adapter uhmodem(4) =
 ESC[1mUSBESC(BESC[m...
 
 I think if -p is given, or stdout is not a tty, no terminal control
 codes should be output (or perhaps it should do strikeouts using
 ^H--that's what man/mandoc/groff does).