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Article #5355Re: Screen attributes and elm
From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 14:07
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 14:07
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marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
:It seems that elm ignores screen attributes, e.g. bold, compared with
:the Berkeley mail which will respond to them. I am assuming that elm
:probably filters out some of the control characters, though I am not
:sure about this. Is this something that can be changed prior to
:compiling. We are running elm 2.2 PL0 at the moment.
Elm's internal pager does indeed do nothing about them. However,
the external pagers do whatever the external pager is configured
to do about it. Less will handle them just fine.
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