Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.6.1-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/man
In a terminal with
# tput cols
85
I looked at the man page of "sloccount". The result was this (left-shifted to
match the line length limit here):
SYNOPSIS
sloccount [--version] [--cached] [--append] [ --datadir directory ] [--fol‐
low] [--duplicates] [--crossdups] [--autogen] [--multiproject] [--file‐
count] [--wide] [--details] [ --effort F E ] [ --schedule F E ] [ --person‐
cost cost ] [ --overhead overhead ] [ --addlang language ] [ --addlangall ]
[--] directories
While "--fol-low" is easy to determine as a purely aesthetic dash because of
the line-wrap, the "--file-count" actually got me; I tried the 3-dashes variant
and got "Unknown option".
Please turn this behaviour off, at least in the SYNOPSIS it's not a
good idea IMO.
Thanks a lot!
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ii less 481-2.1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1
ii qupzilla [www-browser] 1.8.9~dfsg1-3.1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-33
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