Follow-up Comment #14, bug #63958 (project groff):
[comment #13 comment #13:]
> (you can press ^Xe in a <textarea> in lynx,
> and it will spawn your $EDITOR on it; it’s
> okay for shorter things though)
Ah, that's right. I remember discovering that.
Something else must have driven me off.
Cookie problems, maybe.
> The current continuation indent in gnroff in Debian sid
> seems to be… the width of Nm plus one space. Ingenious.
> (We’re talking about Sh SYNOPSIS here, right?)
I am if you are. :D
> This is wrong with multi-call binaries (those that inspect
> argv[0]), as they’ll use “.Nm othername” in SYNOPSIS. These
> aren’t uncommon, therefore I’d rather have a fixed four-space
> (in nroff) continuation indent. I think I’ll change this in
> my mdoc package, too, if I can find it…
Another approach would be to have every argumentful call to `Nm` update an
internal register that stores the continuation indentation amount.
That would be analogous to what _groff man_(7)'s `SY` will do, if you use it
as its man page suggests.
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