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I noticed that when setting MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -b | bat -l man'" as recommended by the README, there were some minor formatting issues - I'm still investigating possible solutions to most of them, but one of them at least has a very simple solution, which is to pass the -x switch to col (in addition to the recommended -b).
I found that the default behaviour of col was to take some dubious artistic liberties with whitespace, particularly noticeable in the very first and last lines of most (all?) man pages, the header and footer. The -x switch tells col to output multiple spaces instead of tab characters, which ameliorated the alignment issues for me.
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Thank you for reporting this. This is a duplicate of (or related to) #652. I should have already updated the README with the col -bx part (did that now in 4102175).
If you find more things which should be corrected, please feel free to open a new ticket or comment here. Thanks!
Hello! Thank you for the lovely software.
I noticed that when setting
MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -b | bat -l man'"
as recommended by the README, there were some minor formatting issues - I'm still investigating possible solutions to most of them, but one of them at least has a very simple solution, which is to pass the-x
switch tocol
(in addition to the recommended-b
).I found that the default behaviour of
col
was to take some dubious artistic liberties with whitespace, particularly noticeable in the very first and last lines of most (all?) man pages, the header and footer. The-x
switch tellscol
to output multiple spaces instead of tab characters, which ameliorated the alignment issues for me.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: