Re: '-' vs '\-' in TH (man(7))

2023-08-20 Thread Lennart Jablonka
Quoth Alejandro Colomar: $ grep -rn '^\.TH [^ ]*-' man* man5/proc_sysrq-trigger.5:7:.TH proc_sysrq-trigger 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" man7/man-pages.7:11:.TH man-pages 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" man7/iso_8859-10.7:6:.TH ISO_8859-10 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)

Re: [PATCH] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

2023-08-20 Thread Lennart Jablonka
Quoth G. Branden Robinson: Hi Lennart, Thanks a lot for taking a stab at this! In lieu of a proper code review, I'll just riff on this to get the issues out before an audience. At 2023-08-19T20:08:06+, Lennart Jablonka wrote: This has nothing at all to do with making it easier to customiz

Re: '-' vs '\-' in TH (man(7))

2023-08-20 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On 2023-08-20 23:51, Brian Inglis wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:10:52 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Hi Branden, >> I just noticed that the Linux man-pages use '-' in TH. That's >> surprising to me, as Michael was careful to use '\-' correctly. >> In the documentation, I couldn't find anythi

Re: '-' vs '\-' in TH (man(7))

2023-08-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:10:52 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi Branden, I just noticed that the Linux man-pages use '-' in TH. That's surprising to me, as Michael was careful to use '\-' correctly. In the documentation, I couldn't find anything that says TH should be different than anywhere els

Re: new tests are not reproducible, e.g. tmac/tests/an_MR-works.sh

2023-08-20 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Those who leave the default (correct, easy) path experience (discover) more. Thus the dogma is: You shall (must) always follow the default (correct, easy) path. How does your path enlighten you?

'-' vs '\-' in TH (man(7))

2023-08-20 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, I just noticed that the Linux man-pages use '-' in TH. That's surprising to me, as Michael was careful to use '\-' correctly. In the documentation, I couldn't find anything that says TH should be different than anywhere else, and so I'd expect he would have used it there. $ grep -rn

Re: [PATCH] [grotty]: Use terminfo.

2023-08-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, i did not spend the time yet to understand what this discussion is all about, and it seems to have very low priority for me, at the same time as there are lots of moderate to high priority tasks open for me - including, for example, support for lower-case .TH/.Dt and .SH/.Sh and for .M