Hi Chet,
At 2024-12-30T12:40:48-0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/16/24 12:48 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * doc/bash.1: Introduce "POSIX mode" earlier in the document. Set
> > the word "POSIX" in small caps (as traditionally done for acronyms)
>
> `POSIX' is not an acronym, despite the Open
I need to correct a point in my own explanation. No revision to the
patch itself is necessary.
At 2024-12-16T11:48:15-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Since AT&T troff also lacks a feature for hyphenless discretionary
> breaks (groff's `\%`),
I of course meant `\:` here. If you knew your man
On 12/16/24 12:48 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Favor man(7) font selection/alternation macros over roff(7) font
selection escape sequences.
In general, I don't do this when it makes the man page source and the
texinfo source lines align better. There are exceptions.
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Daniel Colascione writes:
> I wonder whether it would be possible to add a simple catch-all command
> that would encompass a set of options that can't be defaults but that
> make writing shell scripts easier, e.g. set -euo pipefail, nullglob,
> inherit_errexit, extglob, assoc_expand_once, and vari
On 12/16/24 12:48 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
* doc/bash.1: Introduce "POSIX mode" earlier in the document. Set the
word "POSIX" in small caps (as traditionally done for acronyms)
`POSIX' is not an acronym, despite the Open Group's efforts to retcon it.
It's historically been just a nam
On 12/16/24 12:47 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
The
@option{--norc}
-option inhibits this behavior, and the
-@option{--rcfile}
-option makes Bash use a different file instead of
+option will inhibit this behavior, and the
+@option{--rcfile} option
+will make Bash use a different file inste
At 2024-12-30T11:12:12-0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/16/24 12:47 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > The
> > @option{--norc}
> > -option inhibits this behavior, and the
> > -@option{--rcfile}
> > -option makes Bash use a different file instead of
> > +option will inhibit this behavior, and the
Hi Chet,
At 2024-12-30T11:23:06-0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/16/24 12:48 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > Favor man(7) font selection/alternation macros over roff(7) font
> > selection escape sequences.
>
> In general, I don't do this when it makes the man page source and the
> texinfo so
