On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 02:26:38PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> The .Nm part yes, but but flex++ is not a synonym, flex generates
> different output when called as flex++. This is already mentioned in the
> later section on C++.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:29:12PM -0400, Rob Pierce wrote:
> > Does this makes sense? I took the same approach used in chpass.1.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Index: flex.1
> > ===
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/lex/flex.1,v
> > retrieving revision 1.41
> > diff -u -p -r1.41 flex.1
> > --- flex.1 7 Sep 2015 15:28:06 - 1.41
> > +++ flex.1 20 Sep 2015 02:21:13 -
> > @@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
> > .Dt FLEX 1
> > .Os
> > .Sh NAME
> > -.Nm flex
> > +.Nm flex ,
> > +.Nm flex++ ,
> > +.Nm lex
> > .Nd fast lexical analyzer generator
> > .Sh SYNOPSIS
> > .Nm
> > @@ -69,6 +71,12 @@ library to produce an executable.
> > When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences
> > of the regular expressions.
> > Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
> > +.Pp
> > +.Nm flex++
> > +and
> > +.Nm lex
> > +are synonyms for
> > +.Nm flex .
> > .Pp
> > The manual includes both tutorial and reference sections:
> > .Bl -ohang
> >
Ah, yes - thank you.
Since "flex++" is the same as "flex -+", how about this?
I took the wording from apropos.1.
Index: flex.1
===
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/lex/flex.1,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -p -r1.41 flex.1
--- flex.1 7 Sep 2015 15:28:06 - 1.41
+++ flex.1 20 Sep 2015 14:27:46 -
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
.Dt FLEX 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
-.Nm flex
+.Nm flex ,
+.Nm flex++ ,
+.Nm lex
.Nd fast lexical analyzer generator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
@@ -69,6 +71,15 @@ library to produce an executable.
When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences
of the regular expressions.
Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code.
+.Pp
+.Nm lex
+is a synonym for
+.Nm flex .
+.Pp
+.Nm flex++
+is a synonym for
+.Nm
+.Fl + .
.Pp
The manual includes both tutorial and reference sections:
.Bl -ohang
