On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:34:31PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 09:27:21PM +0200, Michal Mazurek wrote:
> > 
> > Don't place a space after the minus sign. Change from this:
> >       width in columns.  Otherwise, ps defaults to the terminal width
> >       - 1, or 79 columns if none of stdout, stderr and stdin are a
> > To this:
> >       width in columns.  Otherwise, ps defaults to the terminal width
> >       -1, or 79 columns if none of stdout, stderr and stdin are a
> > 
> 
> i think it's correct as it is. you write 10 minus 7 as 10 - 7, not 10 -7,
> right?

That's right, but the problem is an unfortunate line break in the
rendered page:

     COLUMNS  If set to a positive integer, output is formatted to the given
              width in columns.  Otherwise, ps defaults to the terminal width
              − 1, or 79 columns if none of stdout, stderr and stdin are a
              terminal.

I would suggest to just spell out '-' as minus.

> 
> jmc
> 
> > Index: bin/ps/ps.1
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ps/ps.1,v
> > retrieving revision 1.109
> > diff -u -p -r1.109 ps.1
> > --- bin/ps/ps.1     23 Sep 2016 06:28:08 -0000      1.109
> > +++ bin/ps/ps.1     6 Oct 2016 19:24:51 -0000
> > @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ If set to a positive integer,
> >  output is formatted to the given width in columns.
> >  Otherwise,
> >  .Nm
> > -defaults to the terminal width \(mi 1,
> > +defaults to the terminal width \(mi1,
> >  or 79 columns if none of
> >  .Dv stdout ,
> >  .Dv stderr
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michal Mazurek
> > 
> 

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