Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:17:38 GMT From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/8282: either m4 changequote bug or 'man m4' documentation bug Message-ID: <199810121417.OAA24599@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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>Number: 8282
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: either m4 changequote bug or 'man m4' documentation bug
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 12 03:30:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Grigoriy Strokin
>Organization:
Moscow University
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-980520-SNAP i386
>Environment:
>Description:
m4 'changequote' macro doesn't understand multicharacter symbols
for quotes. That is,
changequote(<<,>>
works identically as
changequote(<,>)
whereas man m5 says:
changequote Defines the quote symbols to be the first and
second arguments. The symbols may be up to five
characters long .
>How-To-Repeat:
This command line and program output illustrate the bug:
===============================================
$ echo 'changequote(<<,>>) <<quoted text>>'|m4
<quoted text>
===============================================
no angle brackets should appear in output,
because double angle brackets must be considered
quotation symbols
>Fix:
a) include this problem to BUGS section for 'man m4'
b) just fix m4 sources
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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