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
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
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
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 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
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 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
