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From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[PATCH 8/9] man/clear.1: Revise formatting (4/4). |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:01:22 -0500 |
* Drop period from end of non-sentence.
* Wrap some long input lines.
---
man/clear.1 | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/clear.1 b/man/clear.1
index c47a1d88..47f5dae9 100644
--- a/man/clear.1
+++ b/man/clear.1
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ .SH OPTIONS
variables \fBLINES\fP and \fB\%COLUMNS\fP will also be ignored.
.TP
.B \-V
-reports the version of \fIncurses\fP which was used in this program, and exits.
+reports the version of \fIncurses\fP which was used in this program,
+and exits.
The options are as follows:
.TP
.B \-x
@@ -148,8 +149,9 @@ .SH HISTORY
.PP
The remainder of the script in each case is a copyright notice.
.PP
-The \fIncurses\fP \fBclear\fP command began in 1995 by adapting the original
-BSD \fBclear\fP command (with \fIterminfo\fP, of course).
+The \fIncurses\fP \fBclear\fP command began in 1995 by adapting the
+original BSD \fBclear\fP command
+(with \fIterminfo\fP, of course).
.PP
The \fBE3\fP extension came later:
.IP \(bu 4
@@ -171,10 +173,11 @@ .SH HISTORY
.EE
.RE
.IP
-This is documented in \fIXTerm Control Sequences\fP as a feature originating
-with \fBxterm\fP.
+This is documented in \fIXTerm Control Sequences\fP as a feature
+originating with \fBxterm\fP.
.IP \(bu
-A few other terminal developers adopted the feature, e.g., PuTTY in 2006.
+A few other terminal developers adopted the feature,
+e.g., PuTTY in 2006.
.IP \(bu
In April 2011, a Red Hat developer submitted a patch to the Linux
kernel, modifying its console driver to do the same thing.
@@ -195,13 +198,15 @@ .SH PORTABILITY
Neither IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
(POSIX.1-2008) nor X/Open Curses Issue 7 documents @TSET@ or @RESET@.
.PP
-The latter documents \fBtput\fP, which could be used to replace this utility
-either via a shell script or by an alias (such as a symbolic link) to
-run \fB\%@TPUT@\fP as \fB\%@CLEAR@\fP.
+The latter documents \fBtput\fP,
+which could be used to replace this utility either via a shell script or
+by an alias
+(such as a symbolic link)
+to run \fB\%@TPUT@\fP as \fB\%@CLEAR@\fP.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fB\%@TPUT@\fP(1),
\fB\%xterm\fP(1),
-\fB\%terminfo\fP(\*n).
+\fB\%terminfo\fP(\*n)
.PP
This describes \fIncurses\fP
version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
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