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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-07-20 13:21:10 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-07-20 13:21:10 +0000 |
commit | 9e018f871e6c5f7461894835a2b71f7dadc0aad6 (patch) | |
tree | 06b12f62ae8f0838b7204e1288a42b947b328b50 /usr.bin/less | |
parent | 429f6d26e9d037ec6562a1d9c3121146dec928a9 (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.1 | 10 |
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 |