From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5005C433E0 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 11:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BD92399C for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 11:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726482AbhAHLuR (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2021 06:50:17 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58228 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726064AbhAHLuR (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2021 06:50:17 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x42b.google.com (mail-wr1-x42b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::42b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CC49C0612F4 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2021 03:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr1-x42b.google.com with SMTP id w5so8683256wrm.11 for ; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:50:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M3Qb79gYLf2onszv+qJ9wtwjKwEa0rIqjBMMbwGDCZk=; b=ZFZjORTDZwJ1rFHQPhbrJyBrPZLSleBZXEvd1BowxNVZYlh8r5G0GO5Y8wJjNhxmK2 AGr7kA9kTeZmXAm+65lpUvX9YsT1v9oM2W8gK2KG8j+mNhOfz5dcQjUW/kTT+IuJNTzh oEORbe9wAQ3zsvFyRdAc1DWQRoGjxjInzex7K1gzrYnY3Wm7HyZgkYykezMxEqkAvzBu PUzpC5w0pM0TMuHG5zpfRVEso0bCjvyULAXLyUnobcIy+rHGwMq8HAdIrPhJZPZoRCdu BDqqUJocuW3CwiQjL0erP5cJ5FFLn16d4K7ZiB35/2CNvVGMoP9kT6/Y9B3y3tRa8Pcb gYvA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=M3Qb79gYLf2onszv+qJ9wtwjKwEa0rIqjBMMbwGDCZk=; b=Xbr1GZ+d2Dtq+WEYWAvOWbQIgLPoX3yRm3ImyasEZea7WpNaG8YCZtAgPbXbxFMsM3 fjg59XzG5Nz3pP05Cb/EaG3fUh2/jPnhzBYFA5oK8XixpqAl0fad7xQHr9v7QeMFzk87 X7W7FJti9zHQqUEkB9lZnnY18m4UjbQgB4XLDhhEtNrN8KujHmSTjy9RbNQ2/wp9Iay9 eW+0vYumPtx7iPKfUqRHIuCt7DDvi4Qg/uYKM6yjY8d3y5HC1Il3mQIzNACrfQiZHBme sbUnPPHIw9bw33M0M7cSjceMBvPadAsW4Tw55nVRxQ/4V8ItB96tS0JibBmhAEHmUfUT Y/TA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530tgtSfHPOgT59xzn4A2c5CU3mi+LtA4514q+dNnQ4Fg0fqwsk6 Bpqjb8u6N853OQJSp/NKoQquASw6xO8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJykutazft8e82R+sbqutiQFiEDGcw3NaUXsbo7xel7XNv4SkR668mThaVKw2vIDjOTRK7s8tQ== X-Received: by 2002:adf:e60f:: with SMTP id p15mr3254103wrm.60.1610106600285; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.51.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id y63sm12096875wmd.21.2021.01.08.03.49.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:49:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Escaping whitespace To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: linux-man References: <307e6584-f163-4768-ffe9-b6b4f439e4a0@gmail.com> <5058547d-c021-0aa9-4698-667c4917a12b@gmail.com> From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Message-ID: <9718bbf2-9cb2-7a92-d7fa-94eb6b2eb3c6@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 12:49:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/84.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 1/8/21 12:29 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 18:11, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) > wrote: >> >> Hi Michael, >> >> On 1/6/21 1:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>> On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: >>>> Hi Michael, >>>> >>>> While having a look at your latest commits, >>>> I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace >>>> (existing previous to the commit): >>>> >>>> Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (]. >>> >>> Thanks for prodding me about this. >>> >>> Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi >>> around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no >>> purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit >>> 5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c >> >> Nice! >> >> After your following commit (422d5327a88fa89394100bafad69b21e50b26399), >> I found that there are many such cases. Just [[grep -rnI '\\ ' man?]] >> and you'll see. Some of them are valid, but a lot of them aren't. > > Can you point me at some examples? A sample: man3/envz_add.3:61:.RI ( *envz ,\ *envz_len ) << this should be two lines man3/xdr.3:184:.IR "long\ *" . << unnecessary man3/scandir.3:277:.IR "const void\ *" . << unnecessary and self-inconsistent man5/proc.5:1350:.RI ( "readelf\ \-l" ). << unnecessary man7/symlink.7:424:.I "rm\ \-r slink directory" << unnecessary and self-inconsistent man7/feature_test_macros.7:492:.IR "cc\ \-std=c99" ). << unnecessary man8/ld.so.8:313:.IR "readelf\ \-n" << unnecessary Maybe I'm missing something? Thanks, Alex > > Thanks, > > Michael > -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/