Re: Man page quibble about .wh

2021-09-08 Thread Dave Kemper
On 9/8/21, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > A confusing entry in man 7 groff: > >.wh N trap > Set condition trap; negative means from page bottom. Where are you seeing this? The 1.22.4 version of the groff man page says "Set location trap" here, and git says this wording has bee

Re: Man page quibble about .wh

2021-09-08 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> .wh N trap > Set condition trap; negative means from page bottom. I think it should say "set position trap", to distinguish it from other traps (e.g., input line count traps).

Man page quibble about .wh

2021-09-08 Thread Douglas McIlroy
A confusing entry in man 7 groff: .wh N trap Set condition trap; negative means from page bottom. "Trap" has been defined as "a positional condition". Thus "condition trap" is redundant. Confusingly, the word is simultaneously used to stand for something that is not a trap