Follow-up Comment #5, bug #56500 (group groff): At 2025-07-30T17:30:23-0400, Dave wrote: > Don't know for sure, but it appears to have nothing to do with traps. [...] > $ cat ab > Output. > .br > .ab Die. > $ groff -a ab > <beginning of page> > Output. > Die. > $ heirloom-troff -a ab > Die. > > My hypothesis is that the other roffs are less stringent about > flushing stdout upon seeing an .ab. You can even see that in groff: > > $ fgrep -v .br ab | groff -a > <beginning of page> > Die.
Hmmm! That's a good point.
This looks like a worthwhile feature change, if a minor one.
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