On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 03:50:45PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 16:03 -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Devin Teske <dte...@freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Author: dteske
> > > Date: Tue Feb  2 21:58:17 2016
> > > New Revision: 295169
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295169
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Replace (Qo \  Qc) with (Qo (space) Qc)
> > > 
> > >   When using col(1) piped to vim(1) as pager for man(1), the former
> > > sequence
> > >   of (Qo \  Qc) renders as "" without the space. Replace with (Qo
> > > (space) Qc)
> > >   which renders properly in more (all?) pagers.
> > mdoc(7) also suggests using double-quotes (" ") to escape literal
> > spaces; did you try that?
> Did not try -- tried just now and it works. Will update with a commit.
> However... /me opens "man mdoc"
> (20 minutes later; confused as to where)
> I've read mdoc(7) several times and have never seen such a
> clarification.
> (which I might add; would be mighty useful if you can find it)

If one updates mdoc man page please upstream the change first!

Best regards,
Bapt

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