From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc: tech@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Naive patch for handling empty input
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:05:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZSkkb9WDKI5s8wl8@asta-kit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3dpbb2r53tgnzz2mtvck2kgqwer35kxnp4ehycvcgwyh5jjbt@u66ktrucl3db>
Hi Bapt,
Baptiste Daroussin wrote on Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:22:09PM +0200:
> I was looking for compatibility with groff like you showed above, this
> is an "issue" a user reported, he was expecting to have an empty output
> if provided an empty input, but if the current behaviour is how you think
> mandoc should behave, I am fine with closing the report with work as
> intended.
It might be useful to ask the user first *why* they want that
particular behaviour, and how they think mandoc(1) should behave
without .TH or .Dd in general, and why they want specific behaviour
in such cases of degenerate input.
It is conceivable that maybe they have an interesting reason,
and knowing that reason might help to make mandoc better?
I'm not sure it will, but i'm not sure that possibility can be
excluded, either.
Yours,
Ingo
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-13 7:30 Baptiste Daroussin
2023-10-13 10:13 ` Ingo Schwarze
2023-10-13 10:22 ` Baptiste Daroussin
2023-10-13 11:05 ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]
2023-10-13 11:22 ` Baptiste Daroussin
2023-10-13 11:52 ` Ingo Schwarze
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