On 2/14/22 15:00, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I see Paul added the grep markup recently in a seemingly unrelated change:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=commit;h=fe630c9f
In the old days man pages' SEE ALSO sections mostly didn't use markup
for references to other man pages. I see only one exception in 7th
edition UNIX (1979): its man page for yacc used ".IR lex (1)" instead of
plain "lex(1)".
Nowadays it seems that ".BR lex (1)" is what's preferred for this sort
of thing, so I've been switching to this style desultorily in man pages
when someone points it out, most recently in diffutils today:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=dd9deb765548679e821be565229bb2e142d93573
As usual man pages are low priority for the GNU project. That being
said, this sort of thing is an easy change.
