Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] proc_pid_fdinfo.5: Reduce indent for most of the page
From: Colin Watson
Date: Sat Nov 02 2024 - 21:19:04 EST
(now with some local vim macros fixed to stop accidentally corrupting
the To: lines of some of my outgoing emails ...)
On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 08:09:29PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T00:47:23+0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > and the fact that the NAME section has both semantic and
> > presentational meaning means that like it or not the parser needs to
> > be aware of this.)
>
> Even if mandb(8) doesn't run groff to extract the summary descriptions/
> apropos lines, I think this feature might be useful to you for
> coverage/regression testing. Presumably, for valid inputs, groff and
> mandb(8) should reach similar conclusions about how the text of a "Name"
> section is to be formatted.
Yes, that's a good point and I agree with that.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]