This will set them in Courier with modern formatters* when they render to a typesetting device or to HTML, and does no damage on ancient ones.
Diff of rendering (groff, Heirloom Doctools, mandoc): - MAILPATH='/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has - mail!"' + MAILPATH='/var/mail/bfox?"You have mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has mail!"' DWB adds vertical space, indents, and doesn't render the ~ characters. A fix for the last comes later in this patch series. --- doc/bash.1 | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1 index 81c3153e..3854d561 100644 --- a/doc/bash.1 +++ b/doc/bash.1 @@ -2572,7 +2572,9 @@ .SS Shell Variables Example: .RS .PP +.EX \fBMAILPATH\fP=\(aq/var/mail/bfox?\(dqYou have mail\(dq:\(ti/shell\-mail?\(dq$_ has mail!\(dq\(aq +.EE .PP .B Bash can be configured to supply @@ -6035,11 +6037,13 @@ .SS "Readline Key Bindings" are not recognized. .PP .RS +.EX +.nf \(dq\eC\-u\(dq: universal\-argument -.br \(dq\eC\-x\eC\-r\(dq: re\-read\-init\-file -.br \(dq\ee[11\(ti\(dq: \(dqFunction Key 1\(dq +.fi +.EE .RE .PP In this example, @@ -6585,12 +6589,14 @@ .SS "Readline Conditional Constructs" key sequence that quotes the current or previous word in \fBbash\fP: .PP .RS +.EX .nf \fB$if\fP Bash # Quote the current or previous word \(dq\eC\-xq\(dq: \(dq\eeb\e\(dq\eef\e\(dq\(dq \fB$endif\fP .fi +.EE .RE .IP \fIvariable\fP The \fIvariable\fP construct provides simple equality tests for readline -- 2.30.2
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