Hi Alex,

At 2024-04-17T12:10:20+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 05:39:53PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

quoted

Migrate table entries from using font selection escape sequences to
font alternation macros to set man page cross references.

This change was automatically driven by the following sed(1)
scripts, run in series.  (Due to multiple uses of branching and
dependent relationships between some edits, one big script would not
serve.)

Would it make sense to split this into 3 patches, so that each
corresponds to one script?  Or are the intermediate steps not good?

The intermediate steps are not useful.  For example, after the first sed
script, we have changes like this:

diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2
index 7a7d6d730..979dba538 100644
--- a/man2/syscalls.2
+++ b/man2/syscalls.2

@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ .SS System call list
 \fBchdir\fP(2)	1.0
 \fBchmod\fP(2)	1.0
 \fBchown\fP(2)	2.2	T{
-See \fBchown\fP(2) for
+See .BR chown (2)
+for
 version details
 T}
 \fBchown32\fP(2)	2.4

Having ".BR chown (2)" sitting out there as unformatted text (because
macro calls have to _start_ an input line) is obviously not useful.

However, I did discover that the second script was a no-op!  So I'm
dropping that (actually, replacing it) and will submit a v2.

Regards,
Branden