GNU bug report logs - #33914
In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two lines

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 33914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: 33914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, P <at> draigBrady.com, vincent <at> vinc17.net
Subject: Re: bug#33914: In man pages, the URL's should not be split on two
 lines
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:44:13 +0100

On 1/1/19 3:42 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: adjust URLS in help to avoid wrapping

s/URLS/URLs/ ?

> * 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

Nice! This works also for other long utility names like for
sha???sum family.

Have a nice day,
Berny
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