rg man page miscodes interior hyphens in long option names as unicode hyphen

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What version of ripgrep are you using?

ripgrep 14.1.1

How did you install ripgrep?

homebrew

What operating system are you using ripgrep on?

macOS 15.6.1

Describe your bug.

I believe rg's man page miscodes hyphens within option names. Using Gnu man on mac the rg.1 man page shows switches as --case‐sensitive and --files‐without‐match where the leading hyphens are properly Ascii HYPHEN-MINUS #x2d but the interior ones are Unicode HYPHEN #x2010 which makes it difficult to search for the option name. (I think/hope this came through properly on GitHub).

What are the steps to reproduce the behavior?

$ gman rg

What is the actual behavior?

       --pre‐glob=GLOB
           This  flag works in conjunction with the --pre flag. Namely, when one or more --pre‐glob flags are given, then only files that match the given set of globs will be handed to the command specified
           by the --pre flag. Any non‐matching files will be searched without using the preprocessor command.

What is the expected behavior?

hyphen in switch names should be ascii hyphen-minus as you would type them so they can be cut and pasted to a command line.

ripgrep does not do this. Something else is. It renders correctly as an ASCII hyphen in my man version 2.13.1. My man comes from the man-db package on Archlinux, whose homepage is: https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db

It also renders correctly using man on macOS. I don't have gman even though I have coreutils installed. I don't know how to install GNU man. All of the obvious searches don't show anything for me.

And finally, to prove that ripgrep is not emitting some kind of weird hyphen, you can ask it to generate the man page:

$ rg --generate man | rg pre-glob
flag. One possible mitigation to this is to use the \fB\-\-pre-glob\fP flag to
\fB\-\-pre-glob\fP=\fIGLOB\fP
more \fB\-\-pre-glob\fP flags are given, then only files that match the given set
then it is possible to use \fB\-\-pre\fP \fIpre-pdftotext\fP \fB--pre-glob
Multiple \fB\-\-pre-glob\fP flags may be used. Globbing rules match

In \-\-pre-glob the leading hyphens are escaped but the internal hyphen isn't.

Seems like some roff implementations in some environments need all the hyphens to be escaped in order to stay ASCII: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-01/msg00074.html

Wow, okay. Your link doesn't work, but it's an easy change on my end regardless.

man: escape all hyphens in flag names

Thanks for looking into this. Here are two references from debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052675

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/10/msg00085.html

Yes it was brew install man-db and either I or it offered an option to install as gman.

man: escape all hyphens in flag names

build(deps): update burntsushi/ripgrep to v15

textproc/ripgrep: update to 15.0.0

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rg man page miscodes interior hyphens in long option names as unicode hyphen #3140

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