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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-08-29 21:37:20 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-08-29 21:37:20 +0000 |
commit | 71472a8560e814daaed28a4c8419af566b7da2a1 (patch) | |
tree | cf8c3e4a5e75182dc82b509790c58f6a5c8cf0ab /roff.7 | |
parent | 9095bc771b89105c1f0db983ffea88aa4f11d972 (diff) | |
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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')
-rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -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 |