Re: patch to diff manpage - clarify "-x"

[Tomas Pospisek]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Sorry, that wording is taken from the output of "diff --help", and
> there's no room for your change on a 79-column window.

Is this better:

address@hidden:tmp$ diff -u diff.1.orig diff.1
--- diff.1.orig 2002-10-23 16:38:48.000000000 +0200
+++ diff.1      2002-10-23 19:48:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@
 Report when two files are the same.
 .TP
 \fB\-x\fR PAT  \fB\-\-exclude\fR=\fIPAT\fR
-Exclude files that match PAT.
+Exclude files that match PAT when comparing directories.
 .TP
 \fB\-X\fR FILE  \fB\-\-exclude\-from\fR=\fIFILE\fR
-Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
+Likewise exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
 .TP
 \fB\-S\fR FILE  \fB\-\-starting\-file\fR=\fIFILE\fR
 Start with FILE when comparing directories.

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