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Issue created Mar 08, 2021 by cypherpunks@cypherpunks

Man - Typos - About 10 lines are more than 80 caracters long

The man tor page has a number of lines which does not respect the limit of 80 caracters per line when viewed in a 80 columns terminal. This make fast scrolling difficult, mainly because I rely on the indentation of the text to fast skip to an other sections, for exemple, to go from "GENERAL OPTIONS" to "SERVER OPTIONS". Bad behaving lines falsly trigger a "stop scrolling" command in my head, which overall make me take more time and effort to find the documentation I am looking for.

The issue is present on both XTerm and Xfce terminal on Debian.

Line number that are misbehaving if you look at man tor in a 80 columns terminal : 1035, 1683, 1693, 1699, 1706, 1712, 2190-2195, 2927, 3069-3086 and 3469-3504.

I try to solve this issue by myself by looking at the file "tor-0.4.5.6/doc/man/tor.html.in". I don't know html and how to replace the man page of my computer with the one that will have the changes to test if my updated version is perfect, but if this issue is approuved, I will learn enough to be able to make the necessary changes and give you the final result. You will only need to approuved the changes and copy/paste them to the official "tor.html.in" file.

On a related note, but for a different issue : Is there a script that test the man tor file that at least warn with no modification of the file when a line has more than 80 caracters ? If yes, a problem is probably present in that script. If no, I should create a new issue for that. It would be pleasant to make sure this problem never happen again. :)

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