On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Devin Teske <dte...@freebsd.org> 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) > > The shame is on me; I had opened the system mdoc(7) on OS X, which is actually groff_mdoc(7). There is a subsection therein "Passing Space Characters in an Argument" which has the text in question. I guess I need to spend more time with the mdocml mdoc(7) to get used to what it contains (and does not contain). Sorry for sending you down the wrong rabbit hole... -Ben _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
