Re: [PATCH 06/13] lib/readline/doc/history.3: Drop microtypography.

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/2/24 4:33 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-04-01T09:27:27-0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 3/28/24 5:11 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Now that we're using a correct caret/circumflex/hat glyph on
> > > modern typesetters (and terminals with a Unicode repertoire), drop the
> > > thicket of partial-line motion and type size-altering escape sequences,
> > > certain to frighten and confuse any unfrozen caveman page authors.
> >
> > I'm almost positive this came from an original BSD csh(1) man page.
>
> Checking minnie @ TUHS, I don't see it in /usr/man/man1/csh.1 in 3BSD,
> 2.9BSD (which actually came later), 4BSD, or 4.4BSD.  Given those
> samples, I didn't check others.

It went in sometime between January and July, 1992. Maybe tcsh, but I'm
not going to chase it down.

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