From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.161]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2OLDa6o014466 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:13:37 -0400 (EDT) X-RZG-AUTH: :JiIXek6mfvEEUpFQdo7Fj1/zg48CFjWjQv0cW+St/nW/afgnrylriWlHMFwPdA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from britannica.bec.de (ip-109-42-92-51.web.vodafone.de [109.42.92.51]) by post.strato.de (klopstock mo57) (RZmta 25.8) with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPA id w0584cn2OKAI72 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:13:33 +0100 (MET) Received: by britannica.bec.de (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:13:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:13:32 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: mandoc -Tlint -> stdout? Message-ID: <20110324211332.GA13346@britannica.bec.de> References: <20110324202607.GA51818@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <20110324204519.GC25740@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110324204519.GC25740@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:45:19PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > 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. I disagree. The expected output of -Tlint should always be silence. As such output is considered diagnostic and go to stderr. If I ever get a chance to require man page linting as default in the build system, it certainly makes it much easier to follow if it goes to stderr. Joerg -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv