Tmux man page not up to date

[Byron Boulton]

On 2/6/2016 10:53 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Byron Boulton <daytonb@zoho.com> wrote:
>> On 2/5/2016 3:31 PM, Byron Boulton wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/5/2016 3:01 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:54 PM Byron Boulton <daytonb@zoho.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The man page for tmux in Cygwin is not up to date. The version of tmux
>>>>> in cygwin is 2.1, but the man page is not consistent with that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically I noticed it because I was getting warnings about my mouse
>>>>> configurations settings. There was a breaking change to this for tmux
>>>>> 2.1 as noted in the tmux changelog on their website.
>>>>>
>>>>> Byron Boulton
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Byron
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that too when I packaged tmux-2.1, however it is the file
>>>> that is included in the tarball, and even in the repository it has
>>>> still not been updated:
>>>> https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/tmux.1
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
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>>> That's very strange. I'll open an issue on github then.
>>>
>>> Byron
>>>
>>>
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>> Wait. No it looks like it's up to date on the github page.
>>
>> https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/tmux.1 has
>>
>>      .It Xo Ic mouse
>>      .Op Ic on | off
>>
>> Which is up to date. I also cloned the repo and the 2.1 tag has the mouse
>> on/off settings documented rather than mouse-resize-pane etc.
>>
>> So we should just need to checkout the 2.1 tag of the tmux repository, and
>> the man page should be up to date.
>>
>>
>> Byron
>
> Something's weird then... That passage you mention is also present in
> the man-page I have installed from the normal tar-ball. And I just
> verified, the manpage in the git tag is identical to the one in the
> tarball. Maybe your installation of the tmux package is broken? Try to
> reinstall it maybe?
>
> Michael
>
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Michael,

You're right. The cygwin tmux package is fine. When tmux first gained 
cygwin support, but before it was a package in the repos I had installed 
it in /usr/local. When I uninstalled it (probably via `make uninstall`) 
it left /usr/local/share/man/man1/tmux.1. That was my problem.

Byron


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