Follow-up Comment #2, bug #65108 (group groff): [comment #1 comment #1:] > Decide what to do about spaces and tabs. One can argue about tabs > being reasonable in file names, but spaces are a fact of life. > > As it happens, all requests that take _file_ arguments > always do so as the their *last* argument, thus could reuse > optional-strippable-leading-quote syntax. This would be friendly > to users, I think. No new rule to remember for this argument type.
Friendly to some users, but less friendly to those who use soelim's syntax for
handling spaces and backslashes in filenames.
I argued in bug #59442 that groff and soelim shouldn't use competing filename
syntaxes, as this would not be user-friendly. I still think that's true, but
the right solution might be to make soelim also use the syntax you've outlined
here, breaking back compatibility in exchange for a more scalable solution.
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