> Can anyone justify the existence of memset(3) in libc?
Memset is in the C standard; bzero is not. End of story.
Bzero is justly deprecated on the man page I have (2008-08-06 via Red
Hat). I avoid bzero and compile with "gcc -std=c17 -Wall -pedantic
-extra" to raise a flag when I stray from the
Hi Branden,
thank you for your detailed reply. I'll try your examples over the weekend.
The main reasons why I thought of suggesting the ISO 8859-7 encoding
instead of native Unicode were twofold:
1. The example seen on (was it) reddit (?) looked botched, like typical
8 bit output to a syste
On 3/24/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> This means that mdoc(7) authors will need to learn a habit that is often
> neglected by their man(7) rivals as well:
>
> Use the hyphenation control escape sequence wherever necessary. It can
> suppress hyphenation of _any_ word it prefixes in _any_ contex
On 3/24/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> And groff@gnu.org didn't deliver Deri's message to my gmail
> address at all,
Update: I did get the message in email, "delivered after 23360
seconds" (i.e., six and a half hours later).
On 3/24/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm attaching it, uuencoded in hop
Hi Branden,
Thanks for passing on the original email. It's as I suggested:
- the text/html in the multipart/alternative got axed by the mailing
list, and
- the multipart/alternative was left with a sole text/plain which got
promoted into the multipart/alternative's place.
The text/plain par
At 2023-03-24T03:04:12-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 3/24/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > The original message, available in the mbox archive at
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/groff/2023-03 (search for
> > Message-ID: <2073186.KlZ2vcFHjT@pip>), shows that the primary message
> > text, not just t
Hi Branden,
On 3/24/23 06:55, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[...]
> Perhaps instead:
>
> At the beginning of a word, it suppresses any hyphenation breaks
> within _except_ those specified with \%.
>
> Here is a fixed version of the reproducer:
>
> .Dd June 7, 2010
> .Dt timeradd 3bsd
> .Os
>
At 2023-03-24T00:55:50-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I can reproduce the problem. In groff Git what is also noticeable
> is that groff mdoc(7) now adjusts to both margins by default as is
> historically correct for man pages. (Yes, you can turn this off; see
> groff_mdoc(7).)
>
> But it is
At 2023-03-24T14:08:49+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > \% is desperately underused, despite being as portable as anything
> > is in *roff. Learn it, live it, love it!
>
> While I could even buy you that \% might not be a good default for
> man(7)'s .B and .I, you can't buy that \% is not _alwa
Hi Branden,
> GMail shows me the response part of your message, but Neomutt does
> not, making it look like you did not respond at all except for (part
> of) the quotation--and the attachment.
The email I received from the list had a MIME type of multipart/mixed
with two parts as peers.
part
On Friday, 24 March 2023 08:04:12 GMT Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 3/24/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > The original message, available in the mbox archive at
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/groff/2023-03 (search for
> > Message-ID: <2073186.KlZ2vcFHjT@pip>), shows that the primary message
> > text, n
On 3/24/23, Dave Kemper wrote:
> The original message, available in the mbox archive at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/groff/2023-03 (search for
> Message-ID: <2073186.KlZ2vcFHjT@pip>), shows that the primary message
> text, not just the attachment, is base64 encoded,
And upon decoding this,
Hi Alex,
At 2023-03-23T23:53:18+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I saw yesterday something that might have to do with this. Check the
> timespecsub(3bsd) man (actually mdoc(7)) page, and in the SYNOPSYS
> you'll find some weird filled function prototypes. I tried adding
> hyphens to them, to see
On 3/23/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [Now that's really weird. GMail shows me the response part of your
> message, but Neomutt does not, making it look like you did not respond
> at all except for (part of) the quotation--and the attachment. I've
> never encountered _that_ bug before. Manua
Including the attachment this time.
At 2023-03-24T00:55:50-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Please find a patch attached--it fixes adjustment for me; how about
> you?
diff --git a/tmac/mdoc/doc-common b/tmac/mdoc/doc-common
index 53a25659f..df10ebd7d 100644
--- a/tmac/mdoc/doc-common
+++ b/tmac/
On Thursday, 23 March 2023 21:03:22 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-03-18T11:09:16+, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > The encoding of choice would probably be ISO 8859-7 in order to
> > > remain within the 8 bit character encoding space.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > 4. Write your documents in IS
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