Hi Branden, Dave, On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 11:30:27PM -0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:02 PM G. Branden Robinson > <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is likely due for a cleaned up re-proposal under the new names > > `QS`/`QE` as suggested by Doug McIlroy.
I still don't know what to expect of those macros. Could you please send some examples of what you have in mind? > > Man pages using these proposed macros--which, since the macros don't > exist yet, will be man pages edited in 2025 or later--will surely > never be formatted by a roff that's limited to two-character > identifiers. Do other man-parsing tools expect all macros to be two > characters or less? Or, as the man language is selectively expanded, > can its new macros be given human-meaningful names? I think for consistency sticking to the short format is a good thing, unless at some point we find we need longer ones (but that would be a good point for saying we have enough macros in man(7) that the language is too fat). For me, QS is readable enough (I do like 'p' as a temporary variable for a pointer, though; your opinion may vary.) Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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