[bug #52463] anything that talks to standard error should identify itself

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52463>

                 Summary: anything that talks to standard error should
identify itself
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Mon 20 Nov 2017 04:26:45 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Wishlist
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: gbranden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Many parts of groff (especially preprocessors and macro packages) emit
diagnostics to standard error without identifying where they are coming from.

As groff lends itself to deep pipelines and is an interpreted, extensible
language on top of that, it's frustrating to not know which part of the system
is barking at me when there is a problem.

I propose to make all tools and macro packages identify themselves when
writing to stderr or using .ab, .tm, etc., if they do not already.




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