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 738AFC433DB for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351A12311E for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726165AbhAGRMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 12:12:18 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53444 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725835AbhAGRMS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 12:12:18 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-x336.google.com (mail-wm1-x336.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::336]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCB9AC0612F5 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm1-x336.google.com with SMTP id 190so5814342wmz.0 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:11:37 -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=9kDzP0KZefqGtKoPrn4Kwc+sp9eKZa9au/odtpl9gs4=; b=UEyYUnaAe99mHjIpxiC+ACkIyharTtj7m0zXmHeVhyj3Rcztd+1YhsFlD26XvA1sqD 9ZmCCYHl/LIUys0TyGRxb5KnVArTLgEDgs81KPuAx8CyeVnTpS9V2a+wJEBXBRyzP8fl qrJBZrnjNGGJwTUsgqUd8l01ZlnbaCcYJoomr5UAWyWmAPnnWhr5440b3F6tI0ezPYnF YgxlpbHO0lWuGsbkI7dWUelbD+pjJjA0QykCANgVhm6LpeOOiSohmsxgxBxOH223Wm75 LYqw9qC5PsEFH+5p0OQB23VxoT7BUZYS89jY72Inwe/zWH00ya/IA0vznqhk0G+yr1G9 UtcQ== 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=9kDzP0KZefqGtKoPrn4Kwc+sp9eKZa9au/odtpl9gs4=; b=Oojm0CGR9W99+TQeYGmtDQt6Tkw8T8lP4q7SzbyZOVnh81qhk8mnX8WUfJ0NP8Qn9o 2myCVTB6EAp983KO0JfTcHrNeBhEyk6K43XzzN8lgXcc4Jd/Qiw53JeViAXB1vDvSvlH 2Vmihxx6ImceUcTcx73lfqIiXZTZjXTeL7jJMl8MR6fwFNGgP+FZYFuVSwh/Ipy7eV+1 o0Bw7HdEqeDESoWUWyW9tY2Xp6nGLwzYyW/lEjhPPz8p2S2I9LZENQJ8bR32I+PTGOeC k5MvkmC8OQVFxX0MD1t/xdiCytUCMzJamYEw50G++FhsuSK/HCUk+5SV2Lp59+3pHP9k OKLA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531/8dzB/De1J8SCLaOcWkJNF7usE+utMVGWId1Dk+v1XPZVikKD 7TswSbfBeNJXcF9GV+X185eRlFtwijU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwz0iVrAQk1YyWiJ5Cy0/fMtyNdev4Nm5R0Y25tqCFBZvc+eyk6U4Smdgu658B5Gaev18z8bg== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:2003:: with SMTP id g3mr9003870wmg.136.1610039496652; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.51.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id r7sm8188314wmh.2.2021.01.07.09.11.35 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:11:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Escaping whitespace To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" 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: Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 18:11:35 +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: <5058547d-c021-0aa9-4698-667c4917a12b@gmail.com> 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 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 >> > > -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/