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getopt.3: further clarify behaviour

Bug 213013 [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Jun 28, 2021 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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--- Comment #5 from Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) ([email protected]) --- Hi James,

Sorry for the delay!

(In reply to James Hunt from comment #4)

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Thanks again for reviewing. I've updated the patch but I still think it needs to be "spelt out" that two plus symbols may be required since that avoids any confusion.

Okay.

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Also, I'm afraid I'm using a webmailer so submitting patches to a mailing list is going to be painful for me, whereas this bugzilla is quick and easy (and doesn't require me to register,

BTW, you don't need to subscribe to <[email protected]> to post there :-)
But, I understand the rest.

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format mails in particular ways, plus
of course to manage a ton more emails ;) But if the real action is happening on the ML, I wonder if in the future it might be possible to forward all bugzilla activity automatically to the ML rather than _vice versa_?

Yes. After you said these, I remembered that I asked about that some time ago.
The ML was subscribed again to this bugzilla activity :)

Now the review:

Could you please use '.IR ...' instead of '\fI...\fP...'?

See this extract from man-manpages(7):

[[
The preferred way to write this in the source file is:

.BR fcntl ()

(Using this format, rather than the use of "\fB...\fP()" makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.)
]]

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Thanks again for your help.

Thank you!

Alex

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