From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED93FC433E6 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C229C22CE3 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726329AbhAFMwf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2021 07:52:35 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41798 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726245AbhAFMwf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2021 07:52:35 -0500 Received: from mail-ej1-x62b.google.com (mail-ej1-x62b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::62b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8DDAC061357 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 04:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ej1-x62b.google.com with SMTP id lt17so4919311ejb.3 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:51:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=cc:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4qkVi50SP1jbLuil2BbXjzi7SIolqPdZ7jC6PkuDaUs=; b=AZ7L0411ZId5LKZaPdP3gN0cCQUoxzjoGGXeVkwKT2uBG9M8m98NFh1AW2MTLAVQRg Toj0gSzlCHvcqTsvEW0mq7pL5EFOBCwWJQShAghcI/Mb2C7GVTumnJMUCtssPrlR31rq ZuuN4XKsJ16cAWMQ1Fe91ObDzVBE1z9WwgJQVr4gGxxJeamvpgY/eial1vFuHtNNYnC+ HtitneaMz4COlvt3OU0FFizpXgkgtBhMiaIh7esOEFST0JMXoBceSlJEaoba9IGSmhwt LExY79y9Swfc+vwBuNXJXSXKEKQ462/+IscEVFnEqFX/ZKg//FJgnohFBGgOdsjnnQmD iOdg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:cc:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4qkVi50SP1jbLuil2BbXjzi7SIolqPdZ7jC6PkuDaUs=; b=p4tkPhC8SMUlWTkKJzdLzqO8ywZy7cI8n/vzy7442OCSA7OJP0aHq/464tpAoWj/lp B8ByM8xAn9Bo0qOiGRFf06C0iVPXX9U1E9l8KcOZuwHahzEoyEfz/RRl1vI2Z9bKOlo/ /8lK3+HFrXHnFXs/l3BTBfXpm+CJjgPtKe3B+sJbYY+8dV9v40+Iutb0z1/dNboNCnbw dd6jRoEbuf7Xk8WObuyj7528VImUlZ0rOAKZRCLxD/Y+SKoIxmfluYJC/yW/ngboeg1x 0LA/lFiONx8nbOIbKqvaqe1DXxVj+Vl5Na3TTy7fiKziFPP8SxgdhjRG1FH8V39AfIRV qOjw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531hCR1ctaSLX0Jz9mWOS5eAl0CJuo1CYUskhlV0Rj4/XVKWIuoa b+jWb1oaPghefMpkxVqIo9YouYq9n48= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyvheQK0KGr3oJaVYdkHPdNjPElYx7IiGMsXbMeOUEAgwV7WQIoc/6OmgORJQorvVfEL2xvGQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:a192:: with SMTP id s18mr2600275ejy.249.1609937513376; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:a61:244d:fe01:9fb1:d962:461a:45e8? ([2001:a61:244d:fe01:9fb1:d962:461a:45e8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id bo20sm1436578edb.1.2021.01.06.04.51.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:51:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man Subject: Re: Escaping whitespace To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" References: <307e6584-f163-4768-ffe9-b6b4f439e4a0@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <5058547d-c021-0aa9-4698-667c4917a12b@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 13:51:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <307e6584-f163-4768-ffe9-b6b4f439e4a0@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Alex, On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Michael, > > While having a look at your latest commits, > I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace > (existing previous to the commit): > > Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (]. Thanks for prodding me about this. Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit 5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c Thanks, Michael > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/