Re: [PATCH 16/23] man-pages.7: wfix
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-08 20:10:06
Hello Branden and Alex, On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
From: "G. Branden Robinson" <redacted> Saw this while preparing the "switch to \~" change Alex invited. Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <redacted> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <redacted>
Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 6cb805343..3819dfd97 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.) .SS Use semantic newlines In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on new lines, -and long sentences should split into lines at clause breaks +and long sentences should be split into lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on). This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/