From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Cc: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: mdoc.7: tweak skeleton file
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:28:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100829182839.GA25856@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100829180613.GI3523@acme.spoerlein.net>
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 08:06:13PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote:
>
> I can't speak with any authority on this topic, as it far predates my
> mdoc involvement.
>
> But this is the blessed ordering for the FreeBSD manpages, where EXIT
> STATUS was taken (and ordered) from the POSIX manpages.
>
> sections = [
> '00',
> 'NAME',
> 'LIBRARY',
> 'SYNOPSIS',
> 'DESCRIPTION',
> 'IMPLEMENTATION NOTES',
> 'RETURN VALUES',
> 'ENVIRONMENT',
> 'FILES',
> 'EXIT STATUS',
> 'EXAMPLES',
> 'DIAGNOSTICS',
> 'COMPATIBILITY',
> 'ERRORS',
> 'SEE ALSO',
> 'STANDARDS',
> 'HISTORY',
> 'AUTHORS',
> 'CAVEATS',
> 'BUGS',
> 'SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS',
> ]
thanks ulrich. so i think the ordering is all the same right now. i just
want to know if netbsd will change their pages to match this order
(regarding EXIT STATUS) or not.
as you said initially, it would be good if all pages were consistent, at
least where possible.
jmc
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 18:24 Jason McIntyre
2010-08-28 21:12 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-28 22:01 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-28 22:08 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-28 22:18 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-28 22:38 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-28 23:14 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-29 9:10 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-29 10:50 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-08-29 11:33 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-29 12:09 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-08-29 16:17 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-29 17:26 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-29 18:06 ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-08-29 18:28 ` Jason McIntyre [this message]
2010-08-29 20:57 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-08-30 6:43 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-30 9:01 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-08-30 12:16 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-30 12:21 ` Thomas Klausner
2010-08-30 12:29 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-31 17:54 ` Jason McIntyre
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