Hi Jason,

Jason McIntyre wrote on Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:04:23PM +0100:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 09:35:26PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Jason McIntyre wrote on Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:43:09PM +0100:
>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:

>>>> This tool comes from the textproc/vgrind port so base does not
>>>> have it, is that the reason we do not reference it?
>>>> I think it is still useful, so here's the Xr addition.

>>> we pretty much try to keep xrs only to base pages in base pages.
>>> yes, there are exceptions, but they are few and far between.
>>> i'm not keen to start adding xrs to pages other people don;t have.

>> I tend to agree with Jason; besides, it would also cause dead
>> hyperlinks on man.openbsd.org.
>> The following may be useful, though.  This kind of reference occurs
>> rarely enough that i'm not sure whether we have a standard wording
>> for it.

> i don;t like it, to be honest.  can't you just reference the port
> in the main body, if it's really needed?
> 
>       ...expected by the textproc/vgrind port is produced...

Indeed, that's even better because it is really only relevant in
the context of the ctags -v option.

OK?
  Ingo


Index: ctags.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ctags/ctags.1,v
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -r1.33 ctags.1
--- ctags.1     31 Dec 2015 14:01:26 -0000      1.33
+++ ctags.1     15 Jul 2019 20:39:45 -0000
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@
 references to them are regenerated, keeping only the other values in the
 file.
 .It Fl v
-An index of the form expected by vgrind
-is produced on the standard output.
+An index of the form expected by the
+.Pa textproc/vgrind
+port is produced on the standard output.
 This listing contains the object name, file name, and page number (assuming
 64 line pages).
 Since the output will be sorted into lexicographic order,

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