FS#13830 - Curly quotes in pacman manpage

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 18:26 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 06:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Documentation
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

man pacman
Under the REMOVE OPTIONS section, -n, --nosave option:

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Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally, when a file is removed from the system the database is checked to see if the file should be renamed with a “.pacsave” extension.
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Not sure if that pasted right, but I'm getting curly quotes instead of a keyboard quote character.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 06:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Old bugs are old...and not going anywhere.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 01:53 GMT
This occurs in many other places, such as in the 2nd paragraph of the description. That is just the way asciidoc formats the manpages and we have no need to override it. The only thing we were careful to override is the double dash in the option listings. Notice that if you set LANG=C, you will get "normal" quote characters.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 21:53 GMT
I remember some groff effort a while back to ensure that man page characters were all searchable, which is why I bring this up.

As far as I know, those quotes can't be typed easily, so one could not search for ".pacsave" in the man page.

Is there any way to shut this off? --disable-smart-quotes ?

:)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 19 March 2009, 04:53 GMT
If it can be disabled, all good. But are you really going to search with quotes?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 19 March 2009, 15:38 GMT
Well, not in the pacman man page, but I have before. I think it was the bash manpage and there was something that said [See the "Doing Things" section below] - I did not want that section, but the line that referenced it. Just throwing a use case out there

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