[bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

URL: Summary: [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros Project: GNU troff Submitted by: schwarze Submitted on: Thu 26 Dec 2019 02:46:37 PM UTC Catego

Re: [bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20191226-144637.sv97361.2...@savannah.gnu.org>: |URL: | <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57485> | | Summary: [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in |the groff_mdoc(7) macros | Project: GNU troff |

[bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #57485 (project groff): I'd like to stress that this patch indeed fixes a bug. In 4.4BSD, it was *not* documented that .Dd requires exactly three arguments and prints the current date otherwise, but several manual pages existed that gave a single quoted argument of the

Re: [bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

Hi Ingo. Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20191226-172201.sv97361.20...@savannah.gnu.org>: |Follow-up Comment #1, bug #57485 (project groff): | |I'd like to stress that this patch indeed fixes a bug. In 4.4BSD, |it was *not* documented that .Dd requires exactly three arguments |and

[bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57485 (project groff): Another clarification: In addition to improving the formatting of the original 4.4BSD manuals, this patch does not cause a single regression in any modern BSD system. A manual page relying on the current weird behaviour for != 3 arguments literall

Re: [bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

I'm not posting these answers into the bugtracker because these points are not relevant for evaluating the patch; i'm merely sending this mail to avoid that people get confused by the misleading statements. Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 09:06:00PM +0100: > And i have to go back t

Re: [bug #57485] [PATCH] accept any number of arguments for .Dd in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20191226222825.ga23...@athene.usta.de>: |I'm not posting these answers into the bugtracker because these |points are not relevant for evaluating the patch; i'm merely sending |this mail to avoid that people get confused by the misleading |statements. | |Steffen Nurpmes