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[PATCH 11/13] [man pages]: Make comment more informative.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [PATCH 11/13] [man pages]: Make comment more informative.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:12:40 -0500

Double quotes aren't any easier to use with AT&T troff just because you
tuck them inside a string definition.  (The _name_ of the string doesn't
matter; that gets interpolated before "quote removal", if you will.)

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/Calling-Macros.html
---
 doc/bash.1                  | 2 +-
 lib/readline/doc/history.3  | 2 +-
 lib/readline/doc/readline.3 | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
index c3253b09..a32fb88c 100644
--- a/doc/bash.1
+++ b/doc/bash.1
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 .\}
 .el \{\
 .ds ' '
-.ds " ""\" two adjacent quotes and no space before this comment
+.ds " ""\" not usable in macro arguments on AT&T troff (DWB, Solaris 10)
 .ds ^ ^
 .ds ~ ~
 .\}
diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/history.3 b/lib/readline/doc/history.3
index 111cdbf6..ff21029f 100644
--- a/lib/readline/doc/history.3
+++ b/lib/readline/doc/history.3
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .\}
 .el \{\
 .ds ' '
-.ds " ""\" two adjacent quotes and no space before this comment
+.ds " ""\" not usable in macro arguments on AT&T troff (DWB, Solaris 10)
 .ds ^ ^
 .ds ~ ~
 .\}
diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/readline.3 b/lib/readline/doc/readline.3
index 438da117..bdd0243b 100644
--- a/lib/readline/doc/readline.3
+++ b/lib/readline/doc/readline.3
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .\}
 .el \{\
 .ds ' '
-.ds " ""\" two adjacent quotes and no space before this comment
+.ds " ""\" not usable in macro arguments on AT&T troff (DWB, Solaris 10)
 .ds ^ ^
 .ds ~ ~
 .\}
-- 
2.30.2

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