From: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:56:53 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: Make "roff" the default output mode.
X-Git-Url: http://git.tue.mpg.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99d118192790970e4ce38f088797337c8316a169;p=gsu.git

man: Make "roff" the default output mode.

We've asked people for more than a year to set the output mode,
su this should not come as a surprise.
---

diff --git a/subcommand b/subcommand
index e19b11e..13e3d83 100644
--- a/subcommand
+++ b/subcommand
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Print the manual.
 
 Usage: man [-m <mode>] [-b <browser>]
 
--m: Set output format (text, roff or html). Default: text.
+-m: Set output format (text, roff or html). Default: roff.
 -b: Use the specified browser. Implies html mode.
 
 If stdout is not associated with a terminal device, the command
@@ -310,9 +310,6 @@ file is displayed as a page in the web browser. If -b is not given,
 the command stored in the $BROWSER environment variable is executed
 with the path to the temporary file as an argument. If $BROWSER is
 unset, elinks(1) is assumed.
-
-It is recommended to specify the output format with -m as the default
-mode might change in future versions of gsu.
 '
 
 _gsu_read_line()
@@ -523,7 +520,7 @@ com_man()
 		o_m='html'
 		browser="$o_b"
 	elif [[ -z "$o_m" ]]; then
-		o_m='text'
+		o_m='roff'
 	fi
 
 	_gsu_isatty && isatty='true' || isatty='false'