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[73.93.224.2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-11dcb03c232sm2838264c88.6.2025.11.26.22.55.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:55:02 -0800 (PST) From: Collin Funk To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/man3/getopt.3: Restore angle brackets. In-Reply-To: References: <20251126020524.cq7alectskkzbjh5@illithid> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:54:59 -0800 Message-ID: <87h5ughsn0.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alejandro Colomar writes: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 08:05:24PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Hi Collin, >>=20 >> At 2025-11-25T17:15:39-0800, Collin Funk wrote: >> > While looking at 'man -S 3 getopt' the underlining under PID looked >> > strange to me. > > The underlining under 'PID' means that it's a variable part. We use > that syntax in many pages. This is documented in groff_man(3), as > Branden said. > > However, you might have also noticed some dotted underline that extends > until the end of the line. I think that's a bug somewhere --might be in > the terminal emulator, because I see it in xfce4-terminal(1) but not in > xterm(1)--. I was using Gnome terminal and Emacs '(man "getopt.3")'. >> > -.BI _ PID _GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_ >> > +.IR _ PID _GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_ > > For now, I'll keep the current style, which is consistent in the > project. It still looks strange to me. But I guess I will survive. :) Thank you both for the explanations. 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