cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 vnode.9

Bruce Evans bde at zeta.org.au
Sat May 24 21:45:38 PDT 2003


On Sat, 24 May 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <XFMail.20030524163606.jhb at FreeBSD.org>
>             John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> :
> : On 24-May-2003 Hiten Pandya wrote:
> : > hmp         2003/05/24 11:19:12 PDT
> : >
> : >   FreeBSD src repository (doc committer)
> : >
> : >   Modified files:
> : >     share/man/man9       vnode.9
> : >   Log:
> : >   Bring vnode(9) man page to its senses:
> : >
> : >           - remove '-*- nroff -*-'
> :
> : Why did you do this?  By default, [x]emacs only recognizes .[0-8] as
> : nroff.  Having this marker here ensures that [x]emacs starts up in
> : nroff mode and doesn't hurt anything.
>
> I was wondering about that myself.  I always ADD it to the .9 man
> pages.

I thought it was just a style bug.  If you add it, don't forget to bloat
the file with markup for all alternative editors.

Bruce


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