From unknown Sat Aug 16 15:56:07 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#33914 <33914@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#33914 <33914@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two lines Reply-To: bug#33914 <33914@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:56:07 +0000 retitle 33914 In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two lines reassign 33914 coreutils submitter 33914 Vincent Lefevre severity 33914 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 29 19:56:25 2018 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2018 00:56:25 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41724 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPOv-0002CG-0G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:56:25 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40371) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPOt-0002C4-OB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:56:20 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:54544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPOm-0008Bk-OM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:56:14 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56109) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPOh-0002vh-Lp for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:56:12 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPAc-0001KJ-2u for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:41:37 -0500 Received: from joooj.vinc17.net ([2001:4b99:1:3:216:3eff:fe20:ac98]:44588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdPAZ-00016t-Mc for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:41:32 -0500 Received: from smtp-zira.vinc17.net (jlefevre.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.245]) by joooj.vinc17.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E10BF2BF; Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:41:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by zira.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C7F82C2027B; Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:41:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 01:41:20 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two lines Message-ID: <20181230004120.GC14408@zira.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: Vincent Lefevre , bug-coreutils@gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.1+76 (a5b64f6c) vl-114418 (2018-12-29) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:4b99:1:3:216:3eff:fe20:ac98 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) In the dircolors(1) man page (and other ones for long command names) of GNU coreutils 8.30, as output in a 80-column terminal, one has REPORTING BUGS GNU coreutils online help: Report dircolors translation bugs to and SEE ALSO Full documentation at: or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation' Two of the URL's are split on two lines, making them difficult to follow. The corresponding dircolors.1 file contains: Report dircolors translation bugs to and Full documentation at: The issue may come from the fact that the URL's are not marked up as such. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man.7.html mentions macros for hyperlinks. Thus this might be the solution... --=20 Vincent Lef=C3=A8vre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Jan 01 09:42:53 2019 Received: (at 33914-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jan 2019 14:42:53 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43812 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1geLFp-0004rH-RY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:42:53 -0500 Received: from mail.magicbluesmoke.com ([82.195.144.49]:56212) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1geLFn-0004r7-3I for 33914-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:42:47 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [109.76.141.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.magicbluesmoke.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD2B0A301; Tue, 1 Jan 2019 14:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: bug#33914: In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two lines To: Vincent Lefevre , 33914-done@debbugs.gnu.org References: <20181230004120.GC14408@zira.vinc17.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=c3=a1draig_Brady?= Message-ID: <6acd8177-3b44-92c2-f945-295001c9b297@draigBrady.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 06:42:38 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181230004120.GC14408@zira.vinc17.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4AE220F51F85550DB9321E3E" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 33914-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4AE220F51F85550DB9321E3E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 29/12/18 16:41, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In the dircolors(1) man page (and other ones for long command names) > of GNU coreutils 8.30, as output in a 80-column terminal, one has > > REPORTING BUGS > GNU coreutils online help: > Report dircolors translation bugs to ject.org/team/> > > and > > SEE ALSO > Full documentation at: ors> > or available locally via: info '(coreutils) dircolors invocation' > > Two of the URL's are split on two lines, making them difficult to > follow. > > The corresponding dircolors.1 file contains: > > Report dircolors translation bugs to > > and > > Full documentation at: > > The issue may come from the fact that the URL's are not marked up as > such. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man.7.html mentions > macros for hyperlinks. Thus this might be the solution... .UR macros do work, though are not universally available. The attached takes the simpler approach of ensuring the lines are short enough for an 80 column display, for displaying 8 and 9 character command names. cheers, Pádraig --------------4AE220F51F85550DB9321E3E Content-Type: text/x-patch; name="url-wrap.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="url-wrap.patch" =46rom 8ec3103e509b34ce3d1231b8b754b265b9296a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =3D?UTF-8?q?P=3DC3=3DA1draig=3D20Brady?=3D Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 06:34:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: adjust URLS in help to avoid wrapping * src/system.h: Adjust lines containing URLs so that they don't wrap on 80 column terminals. One could also use .UR macros, but these aren't universally available. Note the adjustments here need to be compatible with the pattern matching done in help2man. Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/33914 --- src/system.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h index f5231d5..540da66 100644 --- a/src/system.h +++ b/src/system.h @@ -660,10 +660,10 @@ emit_ancillary_info (char const *program) to form on= e of the URLs at https://translationproject.org/team/. Otherwise, r= eplace the entire URL with your translation team's email address. */ - printf (_("Report %s translation bugs to " - "\n"), program); + fputs (_("Report any translation bugs to " + "\n"), stdout); } - printf (_("Full documentation at: <%s%s>\n"), + printf (_("Full documentation <%s%s>\n"), PACKAGE_URL, program); printf (_("or available locally via: info '(coreutils) %s%s'\n"), node, node =3D=3D program ? 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One could also > use .UR macros, but these aren't universally available. > Note the adjustments here need to be compatible with > the pattern matching done in help2man. > Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/33914 Nice! This works also for other long utility names like for sha???sum family. Have a nice day, Berny From unknown Sat Aug 16 15:56:07 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:24:05 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator