Follow-up Comment #6, bug #56500 (group groff): At 2025-07-30T19:18:29-0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hmmm! That's a good point. > > This looks like a worthwhile feature change, if a minor one.
Changed my mind in the course of writing the ticket. Long story short,
there are (at least) two different scenarios for using `ab`, and as it
happens the partially collected line, if flushed (it goes to standard
output), ends up getting written to the terminal device _after_ any
messages to standard error). As a user, I prefer fatal diagnostics to
be the very last thing a dying program emits before returing to the
shell prompt.
So I think our manual should coach our users to employ the otherwise
little-used `fl` request if they are contemplating an `ab`ort and need
to see the partially collected line for troubleshooting.
See bug #67380.
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