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Re: unclear m4 documentation formatting
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Eric Blake |
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Re: unclear m4 documentation formatting |
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Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:08:52 -0600 |
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On 01/11/2017 05:03 AM, Tom Baker wrote:
> While in emacs I called up the m4 info file, and read up to section
> "1.4 Using this manual".
>
> There I saw:
>
> <begin snip>
>
> As each of the predefined macros in 'm4' is described, a prototype
> call of the macro will be shown, giving descriptive names to the
> arguments, e.g.,
>
> -- Composite: example (STRING, [COUNT = '1']
> [ARGUMENT]This is a sample prototype. There is not really a macro
> named 'example', but this documents that if there were, it would be
>
> <end snip>
>
> What is "[ARGUMENT]"? I assumed it was the start of that text.
Thanks for the report. This was fixed here:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/commit/?h=branch-1.4&id=f5ef8cf
> m4 manual is:
> manual (22 September 2013) for GNU M4 (version 1.4.17)
The just-released 1.4.18 has the fix, where I see:
> arguments, e.g.,
>
> -- Composite: example (STRING, [COUNT = '1'], [ARGUMENT]...)
> This is a sample prototype. There is not really a macro named
> 'example', but this documents that if there were, it would be a
in the same section of the info manual.
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