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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: enh <enh@google.com>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getline.3: wfix.
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:52:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220729205238.6yf4c4xc2i5ritp3@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJgzZopm7h_0_4j=grKiOu5tWr87ik4-nNvMRy1gxxH_b5b7dQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Elliott,

At 2022-07-29T13:22:22-0700, enh wrote:
> Clarify in the RETURN VALUE section that it's necessary to free the
> buffer, since at least one person missed this up at the start of the
> DESCRIPTION.
[...]
> +If
> +.I "*lineptr"

The quotation marks are unnecessary; macro arguments are space-delimited
and you have none here.  (Even if you had multiple arguments, macros
like `B` and `I` treat them all the same.)

Regards,
Branden

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-29 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-29 20:22 [PATCH] getline.3: wfix enh
2022-07-29 20:52 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2022-07-29 20:55   ` enh
2022-08-01 12:53 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-02 21:17   ` enh
2022-08-05 19:20     ` italicizing pointer stars (was: [PATCH] getline.3: wfix.) G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-05 19:40       ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-05 21:49         ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-05 21:56           ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-15 21:16     ` [PATCH] getline.3: wfix Alejandro Colomar
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2017-07-12  8:10 Long Wang
     [not found] ` <1499847001-83794-1-git-send-email-w-m92B/FuLcaEcWVvVuXF20w@public.gmane.org>
2017-07-12 17:36   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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