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 is more readable the way it was before. As I understand it
the manpage doesn't refer to the constant '-1', but to 'terminal width
minus 1', so the additional space makes sense to me.

natano


> 
> 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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