bug#31228: Update GREP manpage

2018-04-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Paul, Paul Eggert wrote on Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 01:55:17PM -0700: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> i admit that it requires a bit of work, but it would >> give your users better manual pages > We could add it to our list of things to do. In the meantime... Thanks. Totally reasonable and not urgent

bug#31228: Update GREP manpage

2018-04-21 Thread Paul Eggert
Ingo Schwarze wrote: i admit that it requires a bit of work, but it would give your users better manual pages We could add it to our list of things to do. In the meantime... groff and mandoc output of what you committed to git are byte-by-byte identical except for the following one-blank dif

bug#31228: Update GREP manpage

2018-04-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, thanks for looking at this issue. Paul Eggert wrote: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> 1. BEST: Switch to the better mdoc(7) language which does provide >> such markup. > This does not work with Solaris nroff and troff, which we'd still > like to port to, as Solaris is still a live platform. That

bug#31228: Update GREP manpage

2018-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/20/2018 09:03 AM, Laura Morales quoted Ingo Schwarze as writing: 1. BEST: Switch to the better mdoc(7) language which does provide such markup. This does not work with Solaris nroff and troff, which we'd still like to port to, as Solaris is still a live platform. 2. If they insist on

bug#31228: Update GREP manpage

2018-04-20 Thread Laura Morales
Hi, I was trying to convert grep.1 to HTML and I discovered that there are some issues... in particular it seems to be using an unsupported macro for email addresses and URLs. You can see an example here https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/grep/grep.1.en.html#Reporting_Bugs the output is Email