Bug 282734 - top(1) manpage lists ^L as refresh command, but SPC is the actual command
Summary: top(1) manpage lists ^L as refresh command, but SPC is the actual command
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2024-11-13 20:30 UTC by Wes
Modified: 2024-11-17 05:01 UTC (History)
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Change the man page to show SPC as the refresh key rather than ^L (416 bytes, patch)
2024-11-16 18:25 UTC, Wes 		ellisgen: maintainer-approval+
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Description Wes 2024-11-13 20:30:06 UTC 
The manual page states the following in the INTERACTIVE MODE section:
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These commands are currently recognized (^L refers to control-L):

       ^L      Redraw the screen.
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I don't think this is correct. When I attempt control + L the program responds with an unrecognized command message.

Reading through the source and the help within the program, it appears that ^L was replaced with SPC at some point in the past. If this is the case, the man page could be updated like so:

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These commands are currently recognized:

       SPC      Redraw the screen.
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Comment 1 Wes 2024-11-16 18:25:45 UTC 
Created attachment 255222 [details]
Change the man page to show SPC as the refresh key rather than ^L

This is a diff created of the change to the top.1 file to replace ^L with SPC and remove references to ^L.
Comment 2 Alexander Ziaee freebsd_triage 2024-11-17 05:01:21 UTC 
Confirmed. Having trouble finding the specific commit though.