From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1714 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2006 20:15:47 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Mar 2006 20:15:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 47622 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2006 20:15:40 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 17 Mar 2006 20:15:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 7554 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2006 20:15:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 22361 Received: (qmail 7545 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2006 20:15:37 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 17 Mar 2006 20:15:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 47318 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2006 20:15:37 -0000 Received: from dsl3-63-249-88-2.cruzio.com (HELO dot.blorf.net) (63.249.88.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 17 Mar 2006 20:15:37 -0000 Received: by dot.blorf.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25F962CB2; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:15:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:15:36 -0800 From: Wayne Davison To: Peter Stephenson Cc: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: documentation update Message-ID: <20060317201536.GL24877@dot.blorf.net> References: <20060317060309.T16509@dynamite.narpes.com> <060317081120.ZM18164@torch.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:52:55PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote: > Also, if you diff the manual page output, you'll see that (real) 's are > being quoted as \&': again, I presume this is a feature. Unfortnately, that's a misfeature. That makes an apostrophe output as a curly quote, and that ruins things like example code where an apostrophe is what you really must type. This sounds like something where a change from the various packagers (e.g. Debian) didn't bubble up to affect the new yodl version (since this misfeature was never actually fixed in the distributed yodl code itself, but was only patched in lower down). ..wayne..