On 7/22/23, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@simnet.is> wrote: > The text "SENSIBLE-TERMINAL-EMULATOR" is output twice in the header,
You've been seeing this for decades and have never noticed it, because most Unix commands are short and the repetition is unobtrusive. Try "man ls", "man grep", "man ssh", "man ascii", "man troff", or any other common command. Each man page name gets placed on the top left and top right of the page. I agree, for a galumphing command name like "sensible-terminal-emulator" the repetition is not only overkill but detrimental, as it overwrites other header fields. > is once not enough and why? (Is this necessary(?)) I don't know why other than extremely longstanding tradition. (Man pages have been formatted like this for at least 30 years on many flavors of Unix.) It doesn't seem necessary, but you'll have to convince the that's-the-way-it's-always-been brigade.
