Bug 3543

Summary:	small typo in xterm man page
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Daniel Stone <daniel>
Component:	App/xterm	Assignee:	Thomas E. Dickey <dickey>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	high	Keywords:	patch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	OpenBSD
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description FreeDesktop Bugzilla Database Corruption Fix User 2005-06-15 18:00:24 UTC

It should say "-e", not "-a".

--- xc/programs/xterm/xterm.man Wed Jan  5 17:40:31 2005
+++ ./xterm.man Wed Jun 15 18:38:08 2005
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
 programs in a window, and if \fBloginShell\fP were not ignored, the
 result of ~/.profile might interfere with that.
 .IP
-If you do want the effect of \fB-ls\fP and \fB-a\fP simultaneously, you
+If you do want the effect of \fB-ls\fP and \fB-e\fP simultaneously, you
 may get away with something like
 .RS 15
 xterm -e /bin/bash -l -c "my command here"

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2005-10-01 01:14:52 UTC

Bug text was lost in bugzilla disk crash.   xorg-team archives show this
original bug report:

           Summary: small typo in xterm man page
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: OpenBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: App/xterm
        AssignedTo: xorg-team at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: readercamel at gmail.com


It should say "-e", not "-a".

--- xc/programs/xterm/xterm.man Wed Jan  5 17:40:31 2005
+++ ./xterm.man Wed Jun 15 18:38:08 2005
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
 programs in a window, and if \fBloginShell\fP were not ignored, the
 result of ~/.profile might interfere with that.
 .IP
-If you do want the effect of \fB-ls\fP and \fB-a\fP simultaneously, you
+If you do want the effect of \fB-ls\fP and \fB-e\fP simultaneously, you
 may get away with something like
 .RS 15
 xterm -e /bin/bash -l -c "my command here"

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2006-05-31 13:02:53 UTC

Xorg no longer maintains xterm in it's CVS but refers users directly to 
Thomas Dickey's upstream version.

Comment 3 Thomas E. Dickey 2006-05-31 14:01:41 UTC

It's been fixed for some time anyway.  See
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_203

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