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diff --git a/contrib/libc-vis/vis.3 b/contrib/libc-vis/vis.3
--- a/contrib/libc-vis/vis.3
+++ b/contrib/libc-vis/vis.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)vis.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\"
-.Dd April 22, 2017
+.Dd April 29, 2026
.Dt VIS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -246,19 +246,22 @@
Also encode double quotes
.It Dv VIS_GLOB
Also encode the magic characters
-.Ql ( * ,
+.Po
+.Ql * ,
.Ql \&? ,
.Ql \&[ ,
and
-.Ql # )
+.Ql #
+.Pc
recognized by
.Xr glob 3 .
.It Dv VIS_SHELL
Also encode the meta characters used by shells (in addition to the glob
characters):
-.Ql ( ' ,
+.Po
+.Ql ' ,
.Ql ` ,
-.Ql \&" ,
+.Ql \&\(dq ,
.Ql \&; ,
.Ql & ,
.Ql < ,
@@ -272,7 +275,8 @@
.Ql \&! ,
.Ql \&^ ,
and
-.Ql ~ ) .
+.Ql ~
+.Pc .
.It Dv VIS_SP
Also encode space.
.It Dv VIS_TAB
@@ -286,13 +290,16 @@
Synonym for
.Dv VIS_WHITE | VIS_GLOB | VIS_SHELL .
.It Dv VIS_SAFE
-Only encode
-.Dq unsafe
-characters.
-Unsafe means control characters which may cause common terminals to perform
-unexpected functions.
-Currently this form allows space, tab, newline, backspace, bell, and
-return \(em in addition to all graphic characters \(em unencoded.
+Leave
+.Dq safe
+characters unencoded.
+Characters are only considered unsafe if they cause common terminals
+to perform unexpected functions.
+Setting the
+.Dv VIS_SAFE
+flag currently exempts the space, tab, newline, backspace, bell, and
+return characters as well as all graphic characters from being
+encoded.
.El
.Pp
(The above flags have no effect for
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