Hi Alex, On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 18:11, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 1/6/21 1:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > >> > >> While having a look at your latest commits, > >> I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace > >> (existing previous to the commit): > >> > >> Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (]. > > > > Thanks for prodding me about this. > > > > Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi > > around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no > > purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit > > 5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c > > Nice! > > After your following commit (422d5327a88fa89394100bafad69b21e50b26399), > I found that there are many such cases. Just [[grep -rnI '\\ ' man?]] > and you'll see. Some of them are valid, but a lot of them aren't. Can you point me at some examples? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
