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commit 0260203e979a2dd96e19f6564b1dc4e69e80be16
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 26 12:39:34 2024 -0500
[tbl]: Make diagnostic message more helpful.
* src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp (table::add_entry): When erroring about a
table entry ending with (an incomplete) zero-motion escape sequence,
spell out the escape sequence in the diagnostic for the benefit of
*roff non-experts.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp | 2 +-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8a8eb1ecd..51c2ec77e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2024-09-26 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
+
+ * src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp (table::add_entry): When erroring
+ about a table entry ending with (an incomplete) zero-motion
+ escape sequence, spell out the escape sequence in the diagnostic
+ for the benefit of *roff non-experts.
+
2024-09-23 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
* src/roff/nroff/nroff.sh: Support `-v` non-finally in option
diff --git a/src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp b/src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp
index 9452d94f0..ab6eea7ee 100644
--- a/src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp
+++ b/src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp
@@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ void table::add_entry(int r, int c, const string &str,
string last_two_chars = str.substring((len - 2), 2);
if ("\\z" == last_two_chars)
error_with_file_and_line(fn, ln, "table entry ends with"
- " zero-motion escape sequence");
+ " zero-motion escape sequence '\\z'");
}
char *s = str.extract();
if (str.search('\n') >= 0) {
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