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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	bug-gnulib@gnu.org,  linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:19:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZsPpWJ7yZ1nG2RJ@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2947259.IIHS8v3jeM@nimes>

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Hi Bruno,

On 2026-02-22T15:10:03+0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > 	 .B #include <string.h>
> > 	 .P
> > 	-.BI char\~*strnul(const\~char\~* s );
> > 	+.BI QChar\~*strnul(QChar\~* s );
> > 	 .fi
> 
> Ouch. This is not understandable. Why should a user learn about what 'QChar'
> is??
> 
> It's basically like a C++ template with 2 instantiations. Just list them
> explicitly; this will be much clearer.
> 
> It's common that the SYNOPSIS section has several lines. For example,
> man1/locale.1 has 4 separate lines.

Hmmm; sounds reasonable.  I'll do that.


Cheers,
Alex

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<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-22 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-21 15:02 [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:02 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 17:41   ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-02-21 19:56     ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:02       ` Simon Josefsson
2026-02-21 20:45         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:05       ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-02-21 20:55         ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22  1:48   ` Paul Eggert
2026-02-22 11:21     ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 13:46       ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-22 14:10         ` Bruno Haible
2026-02-22 14:19           ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2026-02-22 14:21             ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:04 ` [PATCH v1 0/1] Document strnul(3) Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 15:09   ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 " Alejandro Colomar
2026-02-21 20:53   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] man/man3/strnul.3: New page Alejandro Colomar

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