[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5566: marked as done (23.1.92; man page header ugly on narrow terminals)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #5566,
regarding 23.1.92; man page header ugly on narrow terminals
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> Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:49:00 +0800
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> Here is a complicated bug that involves several packages, and produces
> "WWW::Facebook::API::^HUI^Hsn^Het^Hr..." (^H's visible too)
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> # su - nobody #(LC_ALL=C etc. too.)
> $ HOME=/tmp emacs-snapshot -nw
> M-x man WWW::Facebook::API::Intl (from libwww-facebook-api-perl package)
> on a wide enough terminal, gives a nice
> WWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       
> WWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm)
> however, if the screen is only as wide as the below, this is what one sees:
> WWW::Facebook::API::^HUI^Hsn^Het^Hrl(^HC3^Hop^Hnm^Ht)^Hributed Perl Docu^H
> Similarly under X-windows. If one just uses xterm and no emacs, one gets
> WWW::Facebook::API:UserlContributed Perl DoWWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm)
> which at least doesn't have the visible ^H stuff.
> $ man -w WWW::Facebook::API::Friends
> /usr/share/man/man3/WWW::Facebook::API::Friends.3pm.gz
> where we see the line at question...
> .TH WWW::Facebook::API::Friends 3pm "2009-11-26" "perl v5.10.1" "User 
> Contributed Perl Documentation"
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
>  of 2010-02-10 on elegiac, modified by Debian
>  (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20100209-1)
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> >> From your explanation I gather that for legacy reasons it's unlikely
> >> that the groff's output will be fixed any time soon.  So below is
> >> a patch for man.el that removes these ^H:
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> > Looks OK to me.
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> Done.
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> Juri Linkov
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