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[bug #59251] fix an example in groff_tmac(5)


From: ivan tkachenko
Subject: [bug #59251] fix an example in groff_tmac(5)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:05:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #59251 (project groff):

I pulled master branch -- and there it is, already in the upstream.
Impressive. And you even managed to preserve my authorship while adding links
to commit messages! Never thought it would be so easy.

> the two versions of the example are not equivalent.
I'm not qualified to comment on this one, but I guess you might be right.

In fact, I just started diving into this thing few days ago, because I wanted
to develop some quality plugin to support Roff (& friends) in Sublime Text
(whops, are we even allowed to spell that proprietary name here?). Looks like
every other editor and syntax highlighter has more or less rudimentary support
at least for the basic language constructs.

> db2bbd805439fcdf9a80addd331b3ef281150629
> -the following text is printed to the terminal:
> +the following text is printed:
I never knew that in roff-talk 'terminal' means stderr. I spent two days
learning the language and getting back to that example over and over again,
until I figured to look up *.tm* request definition.  Actually, *groff*(7) --
the document with a reference for requests -- was one of the last things I've
looked into, mainly because it is so much shadowed by *groff*(1) with the same
name.  For a newbie I sure learn things the hard way.

Well, that's all I've got so far. Thanks for the help!

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