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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-07-20 13:21:10 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-07-20 13:21:10 +0000
commit9e018f871e6c5f7461894835a2b71f7dadc0aad6 (patch)
tree06b12f62ae8f0838b7204e1288a42b947b328b50 /usr.bin/less
parent429f6d26e9d037ec6562a1d9c3121146dec928a9 (diff)
Correct misleading description of -S;
problem reported by George Brown <321 dot george at gmail dot com> on tech@.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/less')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/less/less.110
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/less/less.1 b/usr.bin/less/less.1
index 52d2049562e..8e6971c2433 100644
--- a/usr.bin/less/less.1
+++ b/usr.bin/less/less.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: less.1,v 1.54 2019/05/26 01:16:09 naddy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: less.1,v 1.55 2019/07/20 13:21:09 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1984-2012 Mark Nudelman
.\"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN
.\" IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 26 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 20 2019 $
.Dt LESS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -499,10 +499,8 @@ each type of control character).
Thus, various display problems may result,
such as long lines being split in the wrong place.
.It Fl S | -chop-long-lines
-Causes lines longer than the screen width to be
-chopped (truncated) rather than wrapped.
-That is, the portion of a long line that does not fit in
-the screen width is not shown.
+Display only the beginning of lines that exceed the screen width.
+The remainder can be shown by scrolling horizontally.
The default is to wrap long lines; that is, display the remainder
on the next line.
.It Fl s | -squeeze-blank-lines