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From: Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau <sebastien.peterson.boudreau@gmail.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use groff(1) specific string syntax
Date: Sat, 9 May 2026 15:23:01 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af97hfhK_nFKtQFY@HQ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af6gLe2f_jlMCofg@gondor.apana.org.au>

> I checked the NetBSD code and they replaced these with literals
> instead.  Any reason why we can't do the same thing?

As I mentioned, those are listed as "preferred" alternatives in
groff_mdoc(7); I wasn't sure if that document was specific to groff --
other "preferred" suggestions are strings that are unique to groff and
not portable -- therefore my concern was portability, but if NetBSD uses
them, it should be fine (and more readable!)

Thanks,
-- 
S.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-09 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-18 18:53 [PATCH] Don't use groff(1) specific string syntax sebastien peterson boudreau
2026-05-09  2:47 ` Herbert Xu
2026-05-09 18:23   ` Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau [this message]

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