RFR: JDK-8297164: Update troff man pages and CheckManPageOptions.java

Jonathan Gibbons jjg at openjdk.org
Fri Nov 18 18:56:31 UTC 2022


On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:31:19 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi @jonathan-gibbons ,
> 
> I notice that in the new version dash characters are no longer escaped as `-`, do these still display correctly?

Yes, at least in all the files I verified and I have no reason to believe it might be different in any other files.

On a Mac, you can just do `man <path-to-file>` to render the contents of a troff file. That is how I checked the files that I did.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11223


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