Re: ed(1) man page doesn't mention use of single / and ?

On 07/07/2019, ropers wrote: > Second thought, maybe the 'i.e.'s should be changed to 'e.g.'s, > because '/' and '?' also work (instead of '//' and '??', > respectively), so '/re' and '?re' are indeed only examples. > > Or maybe this is overdoing it. I don't know. Whatever you all

Re: ed(1) man page doesn't mention use of single / and ?

personal opinion on this. I'm just trying to respond to mazocomp's reasonable observation and suggestion. Ian On 07/07/2019, ropers wrote: > mazocomp opined: >> Hi! >> >> I am not good at explaining something shortly and clearly to fit into >> proper documentation, so I'll

Re: ed(1) man page doesn't mention use of single / and ?

e following are legal in both > OpenBSD ed, Plan 9 ed and GNU ed: > /something > / > ? > g/ing > > I hope I made life of many ed users easier :) > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:47:50PM +0200, ropers wrote: >> Do I understand correctly that this is in reference to these

events.html -- add year links and corresponding id parameters as anchor targets

Hello tech@, The following adds a line of clickable year numbers near the top of events.html. This is to aid navigation of this now very long page, so visitors can jump to any desired year without being condemned to the smartphone user one-button coma of having to scroll, scroll, scroll. Ian

man find -exec -- a little bit more hand-holding

The find man page might benefit from adding a little bit more user-friendly hand-holding here: Index: find.1 === RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v retrieving revision 1.98 diff -u -r1.98 find.1 --- find.1 2 Sep 2019

artwork.html -- minor fixes

These small changes mainly fix a minor cosmetic issue where the headers are closer to the items above than below them, making it look as if the early releases were the audio CDs, etc. Index: artwork.html === RCS file:

ksh [emacs.c] -- simplify isu8cont()

Index: emacs.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/emacs.c,v retrieving revision 1.87 diff -u -r1.87 emacs.c --- emacs.c 8 May 2020 14:30:42 - 1.87 +++ emacs.c 25 Jul 2020 16:31:22 - @@ -269,10 +269,11 @@ { 0,

Re: ksh [emacs.c] -- simplify isu8cont()

I looked at x_zots(), but then I doubted myself once I saw that that's not strictly what x_zotc() actually does. Does anyone know? Ian footnote: [0] Which latter thought, incidentally, is also why someone invented BCHS. ;) > On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 1

Re: switch default MANPAGER from more(1) to less(1)

Ah, I see where you're coming from, Ingo. You've dropped the idea of testing for less(1) in non-portable mandoc because we know less(1) is in base.[1] That makes a lot of sense. Like you said, the idea of testing for less might be worth revisiting in mandoc-portable. Admittedly, testing for

Re: Patch: ksh: fix input handling for 4 byte UTF-8 sequences

Hiya, @Ingo: Sorry I have been out of touch. I have arguably been out of sorts, though hopefully not out of order in your book. > Index: emacs.c > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/emacs.c,v > retrieving revision 1.87 > diff -u -p

Re: cal(1): Clean up mutually exclusive options

On 16/08/2021, Jason McIntyre wrote: > hi. > > when i wrote my mail, i failed to understand that "overrides earlier" > was really just another way of saying "mutually exclusive". i don;t find > it as clear, and i don;t hugely like it, but i guess it's just my > preference. > > i also dislike the

Re: timeout: Prettify man page and usage

> Changed to "duration and time may contain a decimal fraction. The value > defaults to seconds unless an unit-specifying suffix is given." a unit, not an unit It's phonetic; it depends on pronunciation, not on the way it's spelled. Hence "a unit" /ˈjuːnɪt/ but "an unreal amount" /ʌnˈrɪəl/.

Re: ksh emacs search-history misbehaviour

I appreciate not everyone is as verbose as I can be, but your initial email was very terse. For example, when you say: > in emacs search-history mode, abort if ^@ is encountered is that the desired behaviour or the problem behaviour? >From testing, it seems like the current behaviour is that

man sed(1) diff

I. Not to engage in pointless bikeshedding, but I find this clearer and --if I understand things correctly-- also more technically accurate: Index: sed.1 === RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/sed/sed.1,v retrieving revision 1.60 diff -C8

Re: [patch] Preserve keymap adjustments on suspend/resume

Would this also preserve the LED status (Num, Scroll Lock, etc.)? (I'm nobody important and probably can't help, but I'm curious.) Thanks and regards, Ian On 09/08/2021, Sergii Rudchenko wrote: > Pardon my impatience -- I am a newbie and I don't really know what > should happen next (if

preferred #include guard idiom?

n't cover this admittedly less-than-crucial point. Speaking of include guards, is #pragma once ever okay here, or is that a big no-no? Thanks and regards, Ian (Ian Ropers)