On 27/10/2020 13:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 10/27/20 11:43 AM, Jonny Grant wrote: >> Hello Mtk >> >> I noticed "nonzero" needs a hyphen "non-zero", could that be changed please? >> >> Also there is a word "nonempty" which isn't a word, and isn't needed I feel :- My proposal was to remove the word "nonempty", rather than replace it. > Please see man-pages(7). > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html Yes, I can see those listed there. Google "non-empty" 1Bn results Google "nonempty" 6M results However "nonempty" is not an English, or American English expression we would ever use. Even "non-empty" isn't English, we'd say "not empty", although in this sentence there is no need to have this at all. Some are sensible, eg "pathname" is actually typically an argument name, so although it's not an English word, we know what it is. Same with "username" "timezone" etc. Maybe in another 50 years "nonempty" will be a word, but for now it isn't, so the hyphen is needed. Same as "non-NULL" How to go about proposing this improvement to man-pages? Jonny
