Re: [bug #62776] [troff] want "style" warning category for self-deceptive inputs

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Bjarni, Dave,

On 5/2/23 01:15, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #13, bug #62776 (project groff):
> 
> 
> [comment #12 comment #12:]
>>
>> [comment #10 comment #10:]
>> [...]
>>
>> N.B.  Your text lines are unnecessary long.
>>
>>   When deleting lines from output, (one) "sed -e '/<regex>/d' [...]" is

I forgot to mention that I have several grep lines for cosmetic reasons.
I know that I could use -e, but then alignment wouldn't be as nice.
However, using -f I can have a one liner, so we'll both be happy :).

>> simpler than (many) "grep -v ... || : ...
> 
> I still need the ||: to ignore the exit status of mandoc(1), since I don't
> want to fail for messages that I later filter out.  I only want to fail,
> if there's any remaining byte in stderr after my filtering takes place;
> thus, the last grep ^ >&2.
> 

And this convinced me that Dave was right when he said that this isn't
exactly what one would call "easy".  :)

Cheers,
Alex

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