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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#52782: Man Page: Incorrect Summary of --color Option |
Date: | Fri, 24 Dec 2021 09:52:40 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 |
On 12/24/21 07:11, Pranab Lawrence Ekka Dasgupta wrote:
The summary of the `--color` option incorrectly states that the default option is 'always', whereas it functions otherwise
It sounds like you misunderstood the man page. It says that --color[=WHEN] means "colorize the output; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted), 'auto', or 'never'". The phrase "if omitted" refers to when you use plain "--colorize", not to when you don't use "--colorize" at all. The same wording is used to document --classify[=WHEN], --hyperlink[=WHEN].
I suppose we could reword the man page to avoid this potential confusion in --color, --classify and --hyperlink. However, I don't see how to do that without adding so much wording that the cost would likely exceed the benefit. Perhaps some other wordsmith could chip in.
In the meantime I noticed that the documentation uses the word "colorize" when it should say "color", so I installed the attached.
0001-doc-colorize-color.patch
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