On Mon, 20 May 2024 13:53:15 +0100,
Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> i don't know if there's a reason, but if your change goes in, i suggest
> simply removing the note from the man page, since it hardly seems worth
> noting if we display them all...
> 

digging shown that it was a part of original import from NetBSD. NetBSD
replaces that 4 into 3 ~20 years ago [1] which was made depends on terminal
width [2] which was heavy reworked few years ago [3]


Footnotes:
[1]  https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/2f35689ef72c906930889f879a51437a5ff9d6e3

[2]  https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/c71be29ffd0e9fb425238dc5da9f3828e725c1c2

[3]  https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/643b5abf47b264995ad6cba4018e03aa646c6150

-- 
wbr, Kirill