[bugs] [illumos gate - Bug #1216] long lines in man pages

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Thu Jul 14 12:46:56 PDT 2011


Issue #1216 has been updated by Rich Lowe.


When I wrote the code to fix the pages, Garrett was very much against flowing either the license or Sun copyright on any page.

It would be trivial to script this correctly, but you should run it by Garrett to avoid wasting effort.
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Bug #1216: long lines in man pages
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1216

Author: Gordon Ross
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


The long lines in man pages are annoying.  In particular, they make webrevs that include man page fixes not usable in "sdiff" view.  Here's an example:
  http://cr.illumos.org/view/ju1r6k7n/usr/src/man/man1/cpio.1.udiff.html

Mostly this is the CDDL header, which has the same wording we see on most sources, but spread out with one sencence per line.  (Did I say annoying?:)

We should just wholesale convert the man page sources to have the canonical
line breaks in the CDDL so they will look just like the other CDDL sources.



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