Re: Escaping whitespace

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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.
What do you want to do about them?

Thanks,

Alex

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
>>
> 
> 

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Alejandro Colomar
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