From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 29 05:48:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E764D106566C; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: from vniz.net (vniz.net [194.87.13.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F288FC13; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vniz.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p9T5mJel016084; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:48:20 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@vniz.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by localhost (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p9T5mJBY016082; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:48:19 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:48:18 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20111029054816.GA15960@vniz.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andrey Chernov , Doug Barton , src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG References: <201110282028.p9SKSDdO076508@svn.freebsd.org> <4EAB4B83.3040801@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EAB4B83.3040801@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svn commit: r226889 - head/usr.bin/sed X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:48:26 -0000 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:40:35PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > ============================================================================== > > --- head/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 Fri Oct 28 20:00:30 2011 (r226888) > > +++ head/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 Fri Oct 28 20:28:13 2011 (r226889) > > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ can be preceded by white space and can b > > The function can be preceded by white space. > > The terminating > > .Dq } > > -must be preceded by a newline or optional white space. > > +must be preceded by a newline and optional white space. > > Thanks for looking at this, but I'm not sure that this is an > improvement. "... must ... and optional ..." is very hard to parse. It > looks like what is meant is something like this: > > must be preceded by a newline, and may also be preceded by white space. > > Does that sound right? Also, if you're going to refer to POSIX it's nice > to actually quote the chapter and verse. That would have made it easier > for me to figure out what's going on here, for example. :) "The shall be preceded by a and can be preceded or followed by characters." -- http://ache.vniz.net/