* zless.1: Fix some troff typos mentioned in the latest Debian patch.

Also, give a workaround for the pipe problem.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0b6d2c3ccaa0a50a074ef7419a34d9fde89efe4e..47100d430e0e5ed5ed12f441efa61bfac4c76db7 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2007-06-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+       * zless.1: Fix some troff typos mentioned in the latest Debian patch.
+       Also, give a workaround for the pipe problem.
+
        * gzip.c (copy_stat): Adjust to gnulib's renaming of futimens to
        gl_futimens.
 

diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1
index 28ca8393af185d604d9544903e2d73b4e611aab8..6bf667af007ebd21a6e78788323979bf4e86bb41 100644 (file)
--- a/zless.1
+++ b/zless.1
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files
 one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal.  It is the equivalent of
 setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
 and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
-'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~',
+\&'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\e$%=~',
 and then running
 .IR less .
 However, enough people seem to think that having the
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ zmore(1), less(1)
 .I Zless
 does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard
 input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments.
+To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|gunzip|less"
+instead of
+.RB ".\|.\|." "|zless" .
 .SH "COPYRIGHT NOTICE"
-Copyright \(co 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 .br
 Copyright \(co 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly
 .PP