I want to remove troff output support from indent(1)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 08:27:27AM +0100, Piotr P. Stefaniak wrote:
> 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.

I vote nuke in that case :)

Bapt
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