[HEADSUP] man(1) now uses mandoc

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 03:28:01 UTC 2014


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>  The default renderer on HEAD has been switched to mandoc(1) by default
>> The man(1) command has been instrumented to first test the manpage and
>> fallback
>> on groff if the man page cannot be rendered with mandoc(1).
>>
>> If base is built without groff then man(1) recommands to install groff
>> from
>> packages.
>>
>> makewhatis(1), apropos(1) have not yet been switched to mandoc(1)
>> equivalent.
>>
>
> Thanks and congratulations to all involved!


I've been hoping to see this for at least a decade. Thanks so much for all
of your work on this!.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com


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