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Re: [PATCH 06/13] lib/readline/doc/history.3: Drop microtypography.


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] lib/readline/doc/history.3: Drop microtypography.
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:27:27 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 3/28/24 5:11 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Now that we're using a correct caret/circumflex/hat glyph on
modern typesetters (and terminals with a Unicode repertoire), drop the
thicket of partial-line motion and type size-altering escape sequences,
certain to frighten and confuse any unfrozen caveman page authors.

I'm almost positive this came from an original BSD csh(1) man page.

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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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