[PATCH] hgrc5: wrap corrected text at 80 chars for manpage

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Mon Jun 8 09:03:44 CDT 2009


Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> writes:

> * Christian Ebert on Monday, June 08, 2009 at 12:44:33 +0200
>> I do it the amateur way: I scroll through the manpage in an 80
>> char wide terminal, and where I get
>> 
>> 
>>                   If no suitable authentication entry is found, the user is pro
>> mpted
>>                   for credentials as usual if required by the remote.
>> 
>> 
>> I try to do something about it ;-) A little python wrapping tool
>> I made (for rewrapping broken mails) helps to wrap respecting
>> indentation.
>
> The more I look at it the stronger I believe that this is by far
> not enough. There are many more mistakes in the manpage, like
> characters disappearing because they are not escaped, more or
> less random indentation levels ... Definitely the bastard child
> of Mercurial, the man pages.
>
> Someone who really knows about asciidoc and docbook should look into
> this. Right now I don't have time, sorry.

I'll take a hard look at this when I get home to a machine with
asciidoc.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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