Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 02:57:36AM +0100: | |> selfishly decides over a style issue | |I think there was a discussion on this list, and what Branden does |seems in line with the outcome to me.
Really? I must have missed that then. |> trampling over those macros | |Please refrain from insulting Branden, who is doing good and no doubt |tedious work right now. Yeah yeah. Whatever you say. sed can do a lot of good. |Your implicit allegation that these quotes represented BSD heritage |does not match the facts. Here is what Cynthia's final version |contained in 4.4BSD-Lite2: | | .tm Usage: Ap "cannot be first request on a line (no .Ap)" (#\\n(.c) I would use double quotes. No, correct is that i will use double quotes when i get there. TZ also went from `' to "". |That said, these are diagnostic messages for human consumption and |it seems very unlikely to me that anybody has scripts to parse them, |so i can't see any downside in unifying the style within groff. |Diagnostics in other tools, for example in mandoc, are different |anyway, and no standardization of such messages exists or is needed. And Heirloom-doctools are dead anyway. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)