Re: man(7), hyphen, and minus

[Russ Allbery]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

> These are all correct statements.

> There are two major points to make here.

> 1.  Request invocations are not macro calls.  So all that stuff about
>     double quotes we were talking about doesn't apply here.  :(
>     Sorry about that.  That was a language design decision made
>     literally before I was born.

> 2.  `ds` and related requests (like `as`) are unusual even among
>     requests in that they treat the entire remainder of the input line
>     as a single argument.

>> (I'm not sure where this all might be documented.)

> Would it surprise you to learn that I've rewritten parts of groff's
> Texinfo manual to discuss these matters in detail?  ;-)

Ah, excellent, thank you.  Pod::Man 5.01 will fix some latent bugs in this
area (mostly only relevant if people configure unusual quote characters
for C<> text).

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>