Re: [PATCH 3/3] man2/syscalls.2: srcfix

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Alex,

At 2024-04-17T12:10:20+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 05:39:53PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Migrate table entries from using font selection escape sequences to
> > font alternation macros to set man page cross references.
> > 
> > This change was automatically driven by the following sed(1)
> > scripts, run in series.  (Due to multiple uses of branching and
> > dependent relationships between some edits, one big script would not
> > serve.)
> 
> Would it make sense to split this into 3 patches, so that each
> corresponds to one script?  Or are the intermediate steps not good?

The intermediate steps are not useful.  For example, after the first sed
script, we have changes like this:

diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2
index 7a7d6d730..979dba538 100644
--- a/man2/syscalls.2
+++ b/man2/syscalls.2
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ .SS System call list
 \fBchdir\fP(2)	1.0
 \fBchmod\fP(2)	1.0
 \fBchown\fP(2)	2.2	T{
-See \fBchown\fP(2) for
+See .BR chown (2)
+for
 version details
 T}
 \fBchown32\fP(2)	2.4

Having ".BR chown (2)" sitting out there as unformatted text (because
macro calls have to _start_ an input line) is obviously not useful.

However, I did discover that the second script was a no-op!  So I'm
dropping that (actually, replacing it) and will submit a v2.

Regards,
Branden

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