> Nevertheless, I don't know if it's a problem of the manpage system or of > the manpage writers, and how the writers could circumvent/solve the > problem. And this information would be useful before I start filing > bugs, or!?
This is a bug in the manpages themselves. The unformatted source should have - for hyphenating normal prose, as in "happy-go-lucky", and \- to denote the minus signs used as characters on the command line and other such places. If the proper groff characters are used, your cut&paste and searching problems will vanish and everything will look pretty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]