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Fix #1978:"ul: unknown escape sequence" when asking for help

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It seems that `ul` can't handle the escape sequences for bold text that `nroff` generates on my system.  Fixed by either removing `| ul`, or adding `-c` to the `nroff` command.

Needs testing for old (OSX?) versions of nroff.
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Sanne Wouda 2015-03-10 22:16:13 +01:00 committed by ridiculousfish
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function __fish_print_help --description "Print help message for the specified f
set cols (expr $cols - 4) # leave a bit of space on the right
set rLL -rLL=$cols[1]n
end
set help (nroff -man -t $rLL "$__fish_datadir/man/man1/$item.1" ^/dev/null)
set help (nroff -man -c -t $rLL "$__fish_datadir/man/man1/$item.1" ^/dev/null)
# The original implementation trimmed off the top 5 lines and bottom 3 lines
# from the nroff output. Perhaps that's reliable, but the magic numbers make