Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Christian Kellermann
* Timo Myyrä [160719 11:49]: > Peter Bex writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > >> Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) > >> f

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Evan Hanson
On 2016-07-19 12:14, Timo Myyrä wrote: > Yeah, those are my patches. Ha, well, in that case thanks and nice work. It sounds like the other hackers are generally open to this as long as it can be plugged into the build with relatively little pain, so a self-contained patch for this would be fantast

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Timo Myyrä
Peter Bex writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. >> Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) >> format in them? Mdoc(7) format is easier to wor

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Timo Myyrä
Evan Hanson writes: > Hi Timo, > > On 2016-07-19 10:53, Timo Myyr wrote: >> What do you think? > > I'm very much in favor of a change in this direction. > > Note that zmyrgel has already done most of the work to produce new > mandoc sources; see http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1177#comment:1. > >

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Christian Kellermann
* Peter Bex [160719 10:08]: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > > Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) > > format in them? Mdoc(7) format is ea

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi Timo, On 2016-07-19 10:53, Timo Myyr� wrote: > What do you think? I'm very much in favor of a change in this direction. Note that zmyrgel has already done most of the work to produce new mandoc sources; see http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1177#comment:1. Cheers, Evan ___

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Peter Bex
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > Hi, > > Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) > format in them? Mdoc(7) format is easier to work on and the manual pages nee

[Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

2016-07-19 Thread Timo Myyrä
Hi, Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) format in them? Mdoc(7) format is easier to work on and the manual pages need attention in any case. Currently they just recommend to run the comm