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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2015-08-29 21:37:20 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2015-08-29 21:37:20 +0000
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Implement the escape sequence \\$*, expanding to all arguments
of the current user-defined macro. This is another missing feature required for ocserv(8). Problem reported by Kurt Jaeger <pi at FreeBSD>.
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index 127504f8..39003c09 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.72 2015/05/31 23:13:22 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.73 2015/08/29 21:37:20 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 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: May 31 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 29 2015 $
.Dt ROFF 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ produces
.D1 \efI\e^XtFree\e^\efP.
.Pp
in the input stream, and thus in the output: \fI\^XtFree\^\fP.
+Each occurrence of \e\e$* is replaced with all the arguments,
+joined together with single blank characters.
.Pp
Since macros and user-defined strings share a common string table,
defining a macro