Re: [PATCH v2] memmem.3: Add list of known systems where this is available

[Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>]

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On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:59:59 +0100
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:

> > +but is present on a number of other systems,
> > +including: musl libc 0.9.7; FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 5.4,
> > +NetBSD, and Illumos.  
> 
> I've been thinking about the line breaks.  I'm not sure how I'd split them, but 
> I'm not happy with the current suggestion.
> 
> Please see man-pages(7) about semantic newlines, and see if you come up with 
> something nicer.
> 
> man-pages(7):
>     Use semantic newlines
>         In  the  source of a manual page, new sentences should be
>         started on new lines, long sentences should be split into
>         lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons,  colons,  and
>         so on), and long clauses should be split at phrase bound‐
>         aries.   This  convention,  sometimes  known as "semantic
>         newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of  patches,
>         which often operate at the level of individual sentences,
>         clauses, or phrases.

I guess the best thing then is to just break it on the semi-colon.

Andrew

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