Thanks, I guess I was relying too much on my 7th Edition UNIX reflexes;
its -man package lacked \*(lq and \*(rq. I'm leery of using markdown
style in comments so I installed the attached instead.
I'll propagate this fix to RCS as well.
From 8185556858c39ee829fa202dd73ab8fdb0d5a3bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:07:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: update troff comment
* doc/grep.in.1: Update troff comment.
Reported by G. Branden Robinson (Bug#79608).
---
doc/grep.in.1 | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1
index 1150b5d..ee9c735 100644
--- a/doc/grep.in.1
+++ b/doc/grep.in.1
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
.ie \n(.g .ds ' \(aq
.el .ds ' '
.if !\w@\*(lq@ \{\
-.\" Recent-enough groff an.tmac does not seem to be in use,
-.\" so define the strings lq and rq.
+.\" The implementation lacks \*(lq and presumably \*(rq.
. ie \n(.g \{\
. ds lq \(lq\"
. ds rq \(rq\"
--
2.48.1
