[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

[walt]

On 02/27/2010 08:32 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980<nixuser1980@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
>> pages, they are covered in "ESC".  This does not occur when using normal
>> user accounts or the root account through su.  Wondering what is going
>> on.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Kind of curious about this myself.  It has just been a minor annoyance
> to me for the last couple of years, but it seems to show up only when
> logged onto root.

There are several environment variables that affect the output of man,
e.g. PAGER, LESS, LESSCOLOR, LESSOPEN, LESSIGNORE, the contents of
~/.lessfilter and probably other things I can't remember.

Any of those might be different for root.