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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-04-21 22:48:58 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-04-21 22:48:58 +0000
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Implement the roff .break request (break out of a .while loop).
Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz> found it in an ancient groffer(1) manual page (version 1.19) on MacOS X Mojave. Having .break not implemented wasn't a particularly bright idea because obviously, it tended to cause infinite loops.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.111 2019/01/01 03:45:29 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.112 2019/04/21 22:48:58 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 21 2019 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -503,10 +503,9 @@ This is a Heirloom extension and currently unsupported.
.It Ic \&br
Break the output line.
.It Ic \&break
-Break out of a
+Break out of the innermost
.Ic \&while
loop.
-Currently unsupported.
.It Ic \&breakchar Ar char ...
Optional line break characters.
This is a Heirloom extension and currently ignored.