> From: "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 03:47:56 -0400 > > ul appears somewhat useless for its intended purpose. > > echo _xxx_ | ul does not result in underlined text in an xterm, so I doubt > many people are using this. > > Unlike, say, mandoc, it can't output Greek letters. I also imagine most people > have moved on to some form of markdown for their other text markup needs. > > Will anyone miss it?
I doubt anybody ever uses it directly, but I've seen it used in scripts. And even though POSIX doesn't mention it, it is present on pretty much any UNIX-like OS. I think removing it would be wrong. > Index: Makefile > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.153 > diff -u -p -r1.153 Makefile > --- Makefile 16 Jul 2015 20:50:40 -0000 1.153 > +++ Makefile 23 Oct 2015 07:43:25 -0000 > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SUBDIR= apply arch at aucat audioctl awk > sort spell split sqlite3 ssh stat su systat \ > tail talk tcpbench tee telnet tftp tic time \ > tmux top touch tput tr true tset tsort tty usbhidaction usbhidctl \ > - ul uname unexpand unifdef uniq units \ > + uname unexpand unifdef uniq units \ > unvis users uudecode uuencode vacation vi vis vmstat w wall wc \ > what which who whois write x99token xargs xinstall \ > yacc yes > >
