From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498C1C19F2A for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235454AbiHKMtG (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:49:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34586 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235471AbiHKMs4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:48:56 -0400 Received: from scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu (scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu [IPv6:2a00:1398:9:f712::810d:e752]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0ABA7844DB for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 05:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hekate.asta.kit.edu ([2a00:1398:5:f401::77]) by scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (envelope-from ) id 1oM7cK-008hTF-0y; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:48:52 +0200 Received: from login-1.asta.kit.edu ([2a00:1398:5:f400::72]) by hekate.asta.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1oM7cJ-007H6U-6l; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:48:51 +0200 Received: from schwarze by login-1.asta.kit.edu with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oM7cJ-0006f6-64; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:48:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:48:51 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: g.branden.robinson@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, groff@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] xattr.7: wfix Message-ID: References: <20220729114506.1669153-4-stepnem@gmail.com> <20220729205823.lcy4fbezlw32owgu@illithid> <20220730161521+0200.203910-stepnem@gmail.com> <8edd0272-0c43-b5e7-9220-20094bb5ae23@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8edd0272-0c43-b5e7-9220-20094bb5ae23@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Alejandro, Alejandro Colomar wrote on Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 03:28:03PM +0200: > I'd like to arrive to some consensus on usage of \~ and '\ '. In manual pages, always use "\ " and never use "\~", period. The former is portable and the latter is a GNU extension. > What do you think? I think you are massively overthinking this and the whole SI argument is irrelevent for manual pages. While the above concern about robustness is minor, too (both groff and mandoc support \~), portability is still significantly more important than such minute typographical details. Yours, Ingo