gnulib and the git submodule blues (was: man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?)

2025-01-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Colin, At 2025-01-27T17:46:14+, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:26:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Me neither! Years ago I used to tolerate this and found myself much > > happier when I forced an 80-column limit on man pages I viewed. > > Since joining groff dev

Re: man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?

2025-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:26:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-01-24T07:47:00+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 08:47:20PM -0600: > > > At 2025-01-22T07:10:54+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > [...] So a line of text is hardly longer than

Re: man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?

2025-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 07:47:00AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 08:47:20PM -0600: > > At 2025-01-22T07:10:54+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > -a, --all > By default, man will exit after displaying the most suitable > manual page it f

Re: man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?

2025-01-27 Thread onf
On Mon Jan 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-01-24T07:47:00+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > [...] > > (1) In theory, the idea of a standardized approach to portability > > sounds good, so it's hard to argue with that. The problem is not the > > basic idea, but that gnulib

Re: man(7), the hyperlink tagging challenge, and what's a node?

2025-01-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Ingo, At 2025-01-24T07:47:00+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 08:47:20PM -0600: > > At 2025-01-22T07:10:54+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> It does not require the user to provide any new configuration or > >> options. It happens completely automati