Re: Fwd: Small fixes for ssh.1 and ssh_config.5, OpenSSH_7.2p2

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>]

Hallo Ingo, list,

Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:11:14PM +0200:
 |> I still haven't checked the OpenBSD version of OpenSSH, but i have
 |> seen your message on their ML (via Gmane) and there you correctly
 |> state what \& is far, it is used to avoid (mis)interpretation of "!".
 |> So it should be before that, not thereafter.
 |
 |Non sequitur.

So now i have, and the bug(s) is (are) still in there.  It is
a bug, if i type "man ssh_config" i see

       PermitLocalCommand
              Allow  local  command  execution  via the LocalCommand option or
              using the ! Ns command escape sequence in ssh(1).  The  argument
              must be ``yes'' or ``no''.  The default is ``no''.

In OpenBSD language that is total crap.
If i type "zcat /usr/share/man/man5/ssh_config.5.gz|mandoc|v"
i see ... the very same!

 |In many languages, you escape characters by placing something before
 |them.  But that isn't true in roff.  In some contexts of roff, you can
 |escape stuff by putting something *after* it.
 |
 |>>> and that mandoc falsely does the correct thing, if that is possible.
 |>> Mandoc correctly does the correct thing.
 |> The CVS version now does.
 |
 |Now you confuse me completely.  During the last few years, i changed
 |nothing in the mandoc code we are talking about.  So how can the
 |version of mandoc matter?

The version from September 2015 acted as if "\&! Ns" had been
used.  I don't have it no more, and am toooo lazy to bite.
In the meanwhile i seem to remember a message from A. J. Bentley
who reported some bug a while back, did he?  I'm drowning in work,
i'd surely search otherwise.

 |>> some people find it more intuitive to put the "\&" afterwards to
 |>> express that the character is not ending a sentence (i.e. is not a
 |>> delimiter).
 |
 |> A bug.
 |
 |No, that practice is just fine.
 |I don't understand why you keep calling it a bug.

Bugbugbugbugbugbugbugbugbugbugbug.
(Manually typed.)

 |> The visible flyspeck in the manuals of the portable version
 |> springs into the eye and drives you up the wall.  Bah.
 |
 |I have no idea what you are talking about.  Which formatter are you
 |using?  Which output does it generate for which input?

Just feeding animals in the zoo.  And then home.
Tschüß.

--steffen
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