Re: mandoc -Tlint -> stdout?

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi,

Christian Weisgerber has brought up the idea to have mandoc -Tlint
send its output to stdout instead of stderr, arguing that in -Tlint
mode, nothing else is going to stdout and error messages and warnings
are indeed the intended *output* in that mode.

An obvious downside is that it introduces a certain asymmetry;
however, i'm not sure that it will ever confuse people.
Of course, there are no big advantages either; maybe the most
important point is that redirecting or piping output becomes
a bit less tedious.

Documenting it will not introduce that much complication,
basically a single sentence regarding -Tlint.

I'm not quite sure, maybe i'm mildly in favour of the idea.

Implementation seems to be relatively simple, basically we would
just need to add the error output stream as a member to struct
curparse.

How do you feel about it?

Yours,
  Ingo
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