I want to remove troff output support from indent(1)
Piotr P. Stefaniak
pstef at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 27 07:27:28 UTC 2017
On 2017-02-27 00:49:17, Piotr P. Stefaniak wrote:
>The troff output was invented at Sun and the online docs for some
Of course I meant the indent's feature.
>post-SunOS operating system include this:
>The usual way to get a troffed listing is with the command
> indent -troff program.c | troff -mindent
>
>The indent manpage in FreeBSD 1.0 already lacks that information and
>troff -mindent complains about not being able to find the macro file.
>So I guess the file did exist on SunOS and was supposed to be imported
>into 4.3BSD together with the feature, but wasn't.
According to
http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/net/dev/dev/system/sun4m_412/rsp.01/usr/share/man/man1/indent.1
.B /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.indent
troff macro package for
.RB ` "indent \-troff" '
But the file is missing from a Solaris 5.10 where I happen to have an
account. From what I can see, tmac.indent was never added to 4.3BSD or
FreeBSD. Internet search results suggest that Sun OS might be the only
OS to have the file.
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