From: David King
Date: 19:56 on 11 Jul 2007
Subject: troff
Manpage for Pound:
CONFIGURATION FILE
Each line in the file is considered a complete configuration
directive.
The directives are case-insensitive. Empty lines or lines
starting in
###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99> are ignored. There are three
types of directives: global directives
(they affect the settings for the entire program
instance), listener
directives (they define which requests Pound will listen
for), and ser-
vice directives (they affect only a specific group of requests).
That's a hell of a comment delimiter.
Not many of my lines are likely to begin with
###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99>
From: Dave Hodgkinson Date: 20:32 on 11 Jul 2007 Subject: Re: troff On 11 Jul 2007, at 20:56, David King wrote: > Manpage for Pound: > > CONFIGURATION FILE > Each line in the file is considered a complete configuration > directive. > The directives are case-insensitive. Empty lines or lines > starting in > ###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99> are ignored. There are three > types of directives: global directives > (they affect the settings for the entire program > instance), listener > directives (they define which requests Pound will listen > for), and ser- > vice directives (they affect only a specific group of > requests). > > That's a hell of a comment delimiter. > Not many of my lines are likely to begin with > ###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99> > That looks like escaping gone very, very badly wrong through several transmogrifications.
From: A. Pagaltzis
Date: 06:02 on 12 Jul 2007
Subject: Re: troff
What I hate most is how when you use a Unicode locale, troff
renders two consecutive hyphens, "--", as an em-dash: "—". That's
perfectly fine for prose and I'm all for proper typography, but
sorry, `--verbose` and `—verbose` are just not the same thing.
I'm not sure whether the manpage authors are to blame for not
using "verbatim text/code" tags, or troff is to blame for not
having them, but in any case,
alias man='LC_CTYPE=C man'
is a braindead thing to have to do.
Regards,
From: Peter da Silva Date: 06:25 on 12 Jul 2007 Subject: Re: troff > I'm not sure whether the manpage authors are to blame for not > using "verbatim text/code" tags, or troff is to blame for not > having them, but in any case, > > alias man='LC_CTYPE=C man' > > is a braindead thing to have to do. I have found that if you don't do your text command line stuff with "LC_CTYPE-C" you're going to be unhappy eventually. Windows, Mac, other UNIX. I don't know about Plan 9, since it doesn't give you that option. Oh, *any* use of saved registry files in Windows seems to count as "text command line stuff" by this metric. :p
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