At 2018-04-17T00:05:59+1000, John Gardner wrote: > I'm referring to a select choice of words that just happens to neatly fall > against the 72-character limit... =) Here's the commit message I was > referring to: > > Like man(7), mdoc(7) is a macro package for marking up computer manuals. > The main difference is that mdoc is semantic rather than presentational, > providing authors with a full DSL to abstract page markup from low-level > Roff commands. By contrast, `man` is minimalist and leaves formatting to > the author, who is expected to have a working amount of Roff knowledge. > > Therefore the use of `mdoc` for marking up Node's manpage is a decidedly > better choice than bare `man`. Less room is left for error and mandoc(1) > offers very robust error-checking and linting. > > I've been writing every commit-message like this for years and I got too > good at it, now I look completely mental... :-\
Years ago, we Debian people noticed that our comrade Joey Hess bore a talent for doing this in ordinary email list traffic. Hasty research was done and evidently the term for this is "bricktext". Some people have a natural talent for it. I am not one of them. :) -- Regards, Branden
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