[PATCH app-xdm 2/4] man: remove new-lines and backslash constructs

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Aug 22 08:35:58 PDT 2010


Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> They are ignored and causes serious misalignement.
> Things like '\\n\\' and '\\\\'

They are for displaying to the end user, as they are required in the files
that these are examples of.   The extra \'ing is for cpp - if you switch to
sed, only one level of \ should be needed, but removal is not acceptable.

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