From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: man pages
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:18:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DE98F4ABB57966CC896B079813DAF253@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YSViiIAobiONMRrN@beryllium.local>
Quoth Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>:
> > I'm sure there are all of sorts of inconsistencies all over the
> > place, but expecting anyone to review and fix everything at once is
> > too much, it won't happen.
>
> Oh yes, there are. What comes to mind immediately is citation style
> and handling of options in SYNOPSIS (sometimes all are listed and
> sometimes there is just “[options]”), as well as just bad troff.
> There are some checks for bad stuff (see for example `mk punccheck` in
> /sys/man).
yes, for sure.
it helps me out if I get patches that focus on
one kind of issue: I have to keep less in mind
when reviewing, and format fixes are going to
get less debate than phrasing changes; I like it
when I can land fixes immediately.
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2021-08-14 16:56 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 17:21 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 20:27 ` qwx
2021-08-24 21:02 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:09 ` hiro
2021-08-24 21:13 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:33 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:34 ` ori
2021-08-24 23:42 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-25 1:02 ` ori
2021-08-25 12:05 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-25 22:50 ` ori
2021-08-26 10:02 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-26 14:26 ` ori
2021-08-24 21:49 ` qwx
2021-08-24 21:20 ` Humm
2021-08-25 3:18 ` ori [this message]
2021-08-25 9:37 ` hiro
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