URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68277>
Summary: [groff] make `-I` option stop implying `-g` and `-s`
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 24 Apr 2026 05:13:08 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 05:13:08 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
If we fix #68276, then we can make _groff_(1)'s `-I` less of a DWIM interface,
and stop dragging preprocessors into the pipeline that may not be desired.
To date, specifying `-I` is the only way (employing only _groff_(1)) as a
pipeline manager, a usage we strongly encourage) to get an `-M` option of the
same meaning to _grn_.
However, we don't *know*, simply from the user's specification of `-I`, that
they meant to pass a `-M` option to _grn_. Maybe they meant it for
_soelim_(1). Maybe they don't need preprocessors at all.
Hence this ticket.
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