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Re: [groff] Heirloom: text disappearing when output line trap + interrup
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [groff] Heirloom: text disappearing when output line trap + interrupted text |
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Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:26:27 +0100 |
Hi Tadziu,
> I was actually surprised to see that this feature existed at all in
> Heirloom and Unix nroff, and I would consider it to be a bug (just not
> a bug that the Heirloom project introduced, but one that was already
> present in Unix n/troff).
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> My guess is that it's not intentional, but just a result of the
> routines that process input text, macros, and diversions sharing
> common code
I think this seems very likely.
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Cheers, Ralph.