From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: "Vladimír Čunát" <vladimir.cunat@nic.cz>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mario.blaettermann@gmail.com,
debian@helgefjell.de
Subject: Re: Issue in man page resolver.3
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:32:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXc0Lm3NToqK7ZX0@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ade376ba-13c6-4abc-9b28-6fb53c9af36c@nic.cz>
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Hi Vladimír,
On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 10:21:38AM +0100, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> Hello, just my 2c.
>
> > That is quite confusing, at least to me as a translator
>
> I believe the forward syntax is confusing to C programmers, too.
> It's not standard C and it's also not commonly used in code,
> from what I see. (at least so far; maybe in future)
I can see it being somewhat confusing (as any new syntax, I guess).
I hope in the future it is not, and using it in the manual pages could
help with that. And hopefully it also helps people use it more often.
> Thanks for maintaining man-pages, by the way :-)
You're welcome! :-)
> --Vladimir
Have a lovely day!
Alex
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-24 14:48 Issue in man page resolver.3 Helge Kreutzmann
2025-08-24 16:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-24 16:23 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2025-08-24 18:42 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-25 15:51 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2025-08-25 18:50 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-31 9:49 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-26 9:21 ` Vladimír Čunát
2026-01-26 9:32 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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