Ingo Schwarze :
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric S. Raymond wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:48:16PM -0500:
>
> > Yeah, that was a typo or markup error on my part. I intended %%.
> > Whoever takes on the pic bug is encouraged to fix this in the same
> > commit.
> >
> > I apologize for not being able to take
Hi Eric,
Eric S. Raymond wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:48:16PM -0500:
> Yeah, that was a typo or markup error on my part. I intended %%.
> Whoever takes on the pic bug is encouraged to fix this in the same
> commit.
>
> I apologize for not being able to take this one myself. I like
> pic wel
Doug McIlroy :
> The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not
> reveal that only a few format codes are permitted.
>
> Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only
> %,%e,%f,%g are permitted. But what does a bare % mean?
>
> In fact pic rejects a bare %. However it does
My bad — I should have checked the ownership of the page itself. Maintaining
man (1) makes me the recipient of many similar bug reports that need
redirection, and I have a fast trigger finger as a result.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Best-F
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> On Dec 27, 2019, at 2:18
Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20191227212705.gi66...@athene.usta.de>:
|Hi Doug,
|
|Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 06:45:23PM +0100:
|
|> Should be handled by [...]
|
|I believe the first patch that got sent to the list is incorrect.
|
|The parser in src/pre-pic/pic.y already pars
Hi Doug,
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 06:45:23PM +0100:
> Should be handled by [...]
I believe the first patch that got sent to the list is incorrect.
The parser in src/pre-pic/pic.y already parses '%%' correctly, so
there is no need to change the parsing. Only the assignment
Hi Federico,
Federico Lucifredi wrote on Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 01:31:00PM -0500:
> for (1), I am CCing Michael Kerrisk
fortunately, you forgot to, unless you used Bcc:.
> and the procedure to report issues on the man pages is tracked here
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.htm
Hello Doug,
for (1), I am CCing Michael Kerrisk — and the procedure to report issues on
the man pages is tracked here
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html (In brief: email
mtk.manpa...@gmail.com and CC linux-...@vger.kernel.org).
Best -Federico
> On Dec 27, 2019, at 1
Doug McIlroy wrote in <201912271608.xbrg84jr128...@tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu>:
|The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not
|reveal that only a few format codes are permitted.
|
|Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only
|%,%e,%f,%g are permitted. But what does a bar
The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not
reveal that only a few format codes are permitted.
Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only
%,%e,%f,%g are permitted. But what does a bare % mean?
In fact pic rejects a bare %. However it does accept
%%, which is supposed
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