On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:44:08PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/24/23 8:32 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > Package: bash
> > Version: 5.2.15-2+b5
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > here are some notes and an editorial changes for the manual.
>
> Thanks fo
On 10/11/23 12:54 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[5] https://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html
A true classic.
--
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On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:42 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> On 9/26/23 2:50 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > I'm not confident in what the right behavior is here, and maybe there is
> > no obvious one, but I _think_ this is not desirable:
> >
> > If an unquoted backslash is followed by a quoted globbing char
Hi Chet,
At 2023-10-11T10:22:44-0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/11/23 5:08 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Please consider reverting the following recent changes to the bash
> > man page. Bjarni should have run them by the groff list first,
> > because some of them are ill-considered.
>
> OK.
On 10/11/23 5:08 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Chet,
Please consider reverting the following recent changes to the bash man
page. Bjarni should have run them by the groff list first, because some
of them are ill-considered.
OK. I'm trying to understand them myself; please take my comments
On 10/10/23 8:56 PM, Jim McD wrote:
Bug:
Trailing white space after the delimiting tag cause the here document to
fail with an error like
/./: line : warning: here-document at line
delimited by end-of-file (wanted `msg_end')Trailing white space/
This is not a bug.
Trailing white space afte
Hi Chet,
Please consider reverting the following recent changes to the bash man
page. Bjarni should have run them by the groff list first, because some
of them are ill-considered.
Bjarni,
I regret that I must repeat myself.[1]
Please do not offer yourself as an authority on correct man page
co
