Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 04:00:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/26943: [patch] description of :C modifier is misplaced in make.1 Message-ID: <200205131100.g4DB07j92518@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/26943; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/26943: [patch] description of :C modifier is misplaced in make.1 Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:49:48 +0300 On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:50:04PM -0700, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The following reply was made to PR docs/26943; it has been noted by GNATS. > On 2001-04-29 10:55, Alex Kapranoff wrote: > > make.1 manpage describes :C modifier in comparison to :S, but > > before :S. That brings some inconvenience for first-time > > readers. The first patch moves :C section just below :S (cut-n-paste > > only, no semantic changes) and the second adds some > > insignificant markup to the section. > > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc > > Responsible-Changed-By: cjc > > Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Feb 20 08:42:11 PST 2002 > > Responsible-Changed-Why: > > The docs guys can take care of this, please? > > I think that the idea behind this was that a lot of the stuff that is > relevant to :C is already described in the section of :S, but since :C > came second the text was left at :S. The modifiers are sorted > alphabetically, so it makes more sense to keep :C in the proper place > than move it under :S just to save a few page-down keys. Moving the documentation to the description of :C looks like a good thing to me. > Of course this is MHO. The second diff, that is part of this PR which > adds .Ar macros in a couple of places, looks fine to me. I'd like > this (the second diff only) to be committed if nobody objects. Fine by me, too. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence was in the past tense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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