[PATCH 00/40] man page patches to findutils Git

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:43:41 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID	<20251113164341.vmvnx2azutywsjax@illithid>

Hi folks,

Here are some man page patches as promised.

$ git log --oneline --reverse origin..HEAD
e27fa502 Fix troff error in find(1).
efa5f304 Replace UTF-8 character sequence in find(1).
34ff5532 Populate man pages' headers and footers more.
88e256e2 Fix typo in find(1).
058cdb24 Delete blank lines from man page sources.
3a9abc1e Use AT&T troff-compatible syntax in find(1).
c2269c0a Use man(7) macros to style command synopses.
f25ccd40 Improve typography of synopses.
9100cb1a Improve formatting of command synopses (1/2).
29d03560 Improve formatting of command synopses (2/2).
bf92273a locate/locate.1: Improve table formatting.
dc618370 find/find.1: Improve table formatting.
baaa7fb6 find/find.1: Access " character somewhat portably.
a8706193 find/find.1: Access ' character portably.
81bc6305 find/find.1: Use em dash for linguistic pausa.
542910c1 man pages: Access en dash character portably.
149fe74e find/find.1: Improve cosmetics of *roff logic.
46906f62 find/find.1: Access ~ character portably.
ccd939af find/find.1: Use new ~ string for pastable tilde.
98bb0bb1 find/find.1: Access “ and ” portably.
0af3d884 xargs/xargs.1: Use portable typographer's quotes.
ab2e0571 locate/locatedb.5: Fix unescaped hyphens.
71595fbe locate/locate.1: Access ^ character portably.
29c1eb86 xargs/xargs.1: Overcome limited portability of \~.
026fe66e xargs/xargs.1: Access ' character portably.
e76b28d0 xargs/xargs.1: Add styling to text.
b0fc6928 xargs/xargs.1: Fix truncated examples on old troff
5e4e1e15 xargs/xargs.1: Document standardization of `-0`.
5efab596 xargs/xargs.1: Set "findutils" in italics.
fdd794b0 xargs/xargs.1: Use quotation marks.
f28ddb53 xargs/xargs.1: Set file names in bold, not roman.
bf6cffad xargs/xargs.1: Use ellipses in synopsis.
5e007c31 xargs/xargs.1: Fix font markup nit.
3de1468c xargs/xargs.1: Hyphenate attributive phrase.
88f840bd xargs/xargs.1: Clarify.
56605adc xargs/xargs.1: Fix unescaped hyphens.
fa7d77d6 xargs/xargs.1: Fix markup nit.
4b0b80f1 xargs/xargs.1: Fix markup nit.
0c03455e xargs/xargs.1: Fix markup nit.
795b5a72 xargs/xargs.1: Revise option formatting.

Regards,
Branden

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