Re: [PATCH] man5/locale.5: Fix typo.

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hey Branden!

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 09:00:16AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> ...that proved surprisingly tough to troubleshoot.
> 
> I got the following output from my working copy.
> 
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32291: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32292: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32294: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32294: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32294: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32294: error: output above first line discarded
> grotty:...:(man5/locale.5):32294: error: output above first line discarded
> 
> `\r` is a perfectly legal *roff escape sequence, but one generally never
> sees it in man pages.  In the case, the input line in question was at
> the top of the "page" in continuous rendering mode, and so the attempt
> at a reverse vertical motion did indeed put the drawing position above
> the top of the page.
> 
> grepping reveals no other occurrences of '\r' in the man-pages corpus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>

Patch applied.
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=4e5ba6c1c1b07eaf2324e7a3aaf7255b10dca878>

It's nice to read from you again.  ;-)

Have a lovely day,
Alex

> ---
>  man5/locale.5 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index f7ecce7dc..fa2491eee 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ .SS LC_COLLATE
>  .I reorder\-end
>  marks the end of the redefinition of a collation rule.
>  .TP
> -.I reorde\r-sections\-after
> +.I reorder\-sections\-after
>  followed by a script name to reorder listed scripts after.
>  .TP
>  .I reorder\-sections\-end
> -- 
> 2.30.2



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