[yavor@gnu.org: Minor fixes for 2 manpages]

[yavor@gnu.org: Minor fixes for 2 manpages]

[Richard Stallman]

Is there any reason not to use [em]?  Whoever knows TRT,
please do it.

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From: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:42:30 +0300
Subject: Minor fixes for 2 manpages

In emacs.1 and etags.1 there are a few unescaped minus signs; also two
occurrences of long dashes that should be represented as such, IMHO.
Please consider applying this trivial patch.

In GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-04-24 on tzotzolana, modified for gNewSense
 (Unofficial gNewSense emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20070424-gns1)

Index: etc/emacs.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/emacs.1,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 emacs.1
- --- etc/emacs.1	14 Apr 2007 02:34:16 -0000	1.18
+++ etc/emacs.1	24 Apr 2007 12:31:30 -0000
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 .TP 8
 .BI \-batch
 Edit in batch mode.  The editor will send messages to stderr.  This
- -option must be the first in the argument list.  You must use -l and -f
+option must be the first in the argument list.  You must use \-l and \-f
 options to specify files to execute and functions to call.
 .TP
 .B \-kill
@@ -399,12 +399,12 @@
 T}
 .\" START DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
 CTRL-SHIFT-left	T{
- -X buffer menu--hold the buttons and keys
+X buffer menu\[em]hold the buttons and keys
 down, wait for menu to appear, select
 buffer, and release.  Move mouse out of
 menu and release to cancel.
 T}
- -CTRL-SHIFT-middle	X help menu--pop up index card menu for Emacs help.
+CTRL-SHIFT-middle	X help menu\[em]pop up index card menu for Emacs help.
 .\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
 CTRL-SHIFT-right	T{
 Select window with mouse, and delete all
Index: etc/etags.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/etags.1,v
retrieving revision 3.26
diff -u -r3.26 etags.1
- --- etc/etags.1	5 Feb 2007 21:36:34 -0000	3.26
+++ etc/etags.1	24 Apr 2007 12:31:31 -0000
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 
 .br
 A regexp can be preceded by {\fIlang\fP}, thus restricting it to match
- -lines of files of the specified language.  Use \fBetags --help\fP to obtain
+lines of files of the specified language.  Use \fBetags \-\-help\fP to obtain
 a list of the recognised languages.  This feature is particularly useful inside
 \fBregex files\fP.  A regex file contains one regex per line.  Empty lines,
 and those lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.  Lines beginning


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Re: [yavor@gnu.org: Minor fixes for 2 manpages]

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Is there any reason not to use [em]?  Whoever knows TRT,
> please do it.

The patch is fine IMHO, except that for portability I would rather use
`\(em' instead of `\[em]'.


    Werner

Re: [yavor@gnu.org: Minor fixes for 2 manpages]

[Glenn Morris]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

>> Is there any reason not to use [em]?  Whoever knows TRT,
>> please do it.
>
> The patch is fine IMHO, except that for portability I would rather use
> `\(em' instead of `\[em]'.

I installed this version on trunk and branch.