URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66027>
Summary: [soelim] stop requiring spaces to be
backslash-escaped, and strip leading double quote
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 26 Jul 2024 03:48:54 AM UTC
Category: Preprocessor soelim
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 26 Jul 2024 03:48:54 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
I propose permitting `soelim` to interpret spaces in a `so` argument as-is,
and supporting `ds`-style leading double-quote removal (allowing file names
that begin with spaces).
Why?
To align with a proposed syntax extension to `so` and other requests in the
formatter. See bug #65108.
Won't this break compatibility with everybody?
No. Historically, neither formatters nor _soelim_ programs don't interpret
backslash-escaped spaces as spaces, and in fact _soelim_ programs
traditionally rewrite the first space they encounter in a `so` argument as a
newline (likely putting an undesired partial file name on the output as
formatted text).
See comments 3 and 4 to bug #65108.
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