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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2021-06-27 17:57:54 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2021-06-27 17:57:54 +0000
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add a style message about overlong text lines,
trying very hard to avoid false positives, not at all trying to catch as many cases as possible; feature originally suggested by tb@, OK tb@ kn@ jmc@
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.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 2 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 27 2021 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1066,6 +1066,9 @@ An
request occurs even though the document already switched to no-fill mode
and did not switch back to fill mode yet.
It has no effect.
+.It Sy "input text line longer than 80 bytes"
+Consider breaking the input text line
+at one of the blank characters before column 80.
.It Sy "verbatim \(dq--\(dq, maybe consider using \e(em"
.Pq mdoc
Even though the ASCII output device renders an em-dash as