[darcs-users] darcs patch: Avoid silly manpage error.

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Jul 3 16:12:45 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:38:08AM +0930, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Thu Jul  3 11:07:33 EST 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
>   * Avoid silly manpage error.
>   man (nroff) treats an apostrophe in the first column specially,
>   resulting in a syntax error without this patch.
>   
>   Ideally, all cases of 'foo' in the manpage (i.e. docstrings) should
>   become `foo', since man -Tps turns ` and ' into left and right single
>   quotes respectively.

Applied.  Thanks!  Note that latex also treats `foo' right, which is
another reason to make this change, since these descriptions are also
incorporated into the manual.

David


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