#75 man apt-get foobars term, esp cut and paste

[Zot O'Connor]

man apt-get, which pipes to less foobars cut and pate.

I was cut and pasting from the man page from apt-get
the following:

If no package matches the given expression and
the expression contains
one of ’.’, ’?’ or ’*’ then it is assumed to be
a POSIX regex and it is
applied to all package names in the database.
Any matches are then
installed (or removed). Note that matching
is done by substring so
’lo.*’ matches ’how-lo’ and ’lowest’. If this is
undesired prefix with
a ’^’ character.

At the ' after the first . it starts to break. runing
the mouse selector over it repeatly shows lots of
screen errors.

Sending the output to a file and using vi shows a
number of nroff backspaces, probably intending on
hi-liting the words.

gnome-terminal had no problems.

multi-gnome-terminal-1.6.2-1
RH9
XD
gnome-terminal-2.2.2-0.ximian.6.22
apt-0.5.5cnc6-0.fdr.8.0.rh90

I have attached the output

[Zot O'Connor]

Output of man apt-get