From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>,
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
"G . Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v1] perf_event_open.2: srcfix + ffix
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:39:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7828027-993d-c5de-4db3-5bbda146c85a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a813d3f7-e43f-09d2-40a6-c2bb9f6789f3@gmail.com>
Hi Alex,
On 11/13/20 11:26 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> At this point, I feel we are devoting a lot of energy to solving a
>> problem that has no really good solution. The status quo is not ideal,
>> but so far I'm not convinced that there's any compellingly better
>> alternative. And moving to one of those alternatives will require
>> changes in a lot of pages. I'm in favor of staying with the status quo.
>
> Agreed.
But, I did also mean to say: thank you for trying! The status quo
is a result of my best attempt with just partial knowledge of *roff
and the man macros and I was hoping there might be something better.
Oh well...
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-13 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 10:19 Format inline code Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-05 11:36 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-05 14:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-05 21:37 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-05 22:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-06 9:38 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-06 16:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-06 16:36 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-08 12:22 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-12 11:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-12 21:17 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-13 8:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-11-13 9:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-13 9:47 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-11-13 10:11 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-13 10:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
[not found] ` <fbaf2a56-3f2e-e5ce-6ca2-e8f30156947d@gmail.com>
2020-11-12 21:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-12 22:55 ` [RFC v1] perf_event_open.2: srcfix + ffix Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-13 9:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-13 10:26 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-13 10:39 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
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