Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > Where can I read about this "-" vs. "\-" thing?
I can't find it right now, but basically the difference is that "-" generates a hyphen, which is a different character when running man in a UTF-8 locale. This creates problems when you search manual pages or cut'n'paste because you get the wrong character. "\-" on the contrary really generates a regular ASCII minus character. I think Redhat has patched their groff so that this doesn't happen in Fedora, but Debian and upstream have this behavior. -- Pelle
