# HG changeset patch
# User Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
# Date 1224141468 0
# Node ID 7b3f1867718143af35ef8301f52d4bb376c64db0
# Parent  9f8c6cd4b37c6b7995ed3068ff4b2a32cd03c2f7
(Man-getpage-in-background): Force recent `man's to output
escape sequences even when stdout is not a tty.  (Bug#1142)

diff -r 9f8c6cd4b37c -r 7b3f18677181 lisp/man.el
--- a/lisp/man.el	Thu Oct 16 04:09:13 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/man.el	Thu Oct 16 07:17:48 2008 +0000
@@ -829,6 +829,10 @@
 			      (Man-width (frame-width))
 			      ((window-width))))))
 	(setenv "GROFF_NO_SGR" "1")
+	;; Since man-db 2.4.3-1, man writes plain text with no escape
+	;; sequences when stdout is not a tty.	In 2.5.0, the following
+	;; env-var was added to allow control of this (see Debian Bug#340673).
+	(setenv "MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING" "1")
 	(if (fboundp 'start-process)
 	    (set-process-sentinel
 	     (start-process manual-program buffer