Re: bin/35460 - man(1) and catman(1) don't honour '\" first line comment

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/35460; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/35460 - man(1) and catman(1) don't honour '\" first line
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Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:46:37 +0300

 On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:10:01 +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 
 >  I think this is not valid anymore now that we use mandoc for
 >  formatting the man page? :)
 
 We use mandoc only because man.conf specifies mandoc as the man page
 formatter.  Nothing prevents users from switching back to nroff and
 I'd prefer we keep it that way.  Now, there's a problem that
 traditional magic handling of the first line assumes nroff and will
 break mandoc if performed unconditionally.  So what our switch to
 mandoc implies is not that this bug can be closed, but that the
 handling of the first line must be controlled by a man.conf option.
 
 -uwe