[bug #59963] Issues in findutils man pages

Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #59963 (project findutils):

Thank you for the fast reply.

> I would expect I<'\\(ti'> -> B<\\(ti>

Hmm, IMO the tilde character alone looks quite odd.
Other examples of a single character in the find.1 man page
also quote, but with `...' style.

What about this?


diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index 96fb1fc7..da0ce9b8 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -2341,10 +2341,8 @@ to
 .IR /dest-dir ,
 but omit files and directories named
 .I .snapshot
-(and anything in them).  It also omits files or directories whose name
-ends in
-.IR '\(ti' ,
-but not their contents.
+(and anything in them).  It also omits files or directories whose name ends
in
+`\(ti', but not their contents.
 .nf
 \&
 .in +4m


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