shell: update comment for man wrapper

[config/dotfiles.git] / shell / shell / aliases.in

diff --git a/shell/shell/aliases.in b/shell/shell/aliases.in
index 384d6e5a527098d9038e751e25ac0cd2ff8df09d..039c11a653845f33913302c8cbe268bd575c3af3 100644 (file)
--- a/shell/shell/aliases.in
+++ b/shell/shell/aliases.in
@@ -123,10 +123,12 @@ tree() {
     command tree -C "$@" | less -S
 }
 
-# Modern Groff versions (at least on Debian) don't support LESS_TERMCAP_* to
-# color man pages, set GROFF_NO_SGR as workaround. Also set LANG to C so that
-# hyphens are not replaced with unicode making it impossible to search for
-# options containg "-" or "--" in many man pages.
+# Groff versions >= 1.23 don't support LESS_TERMCAP_* to color man pages, set
+# GROFF_NO_SGR as workaround. Also set LANG to C so that hyphens are not
+# replaced with unicode making it impossible to search for options containg
+# "-" or "--" in many man pages (these are errors in the man page but very
+# common; Debian reverted this behavior in 1.23.0-3 but other distributions
+# might not).
 man() {
     GROFF_NO_SGR=1 LANG=C command man "$@"
 }