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Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:54:42 +0100 (CET) |
> It seems a little ugly to shoe-horn yet another special case in,
> when local variables can just go at the end of the file.
>
> It is a lot more convenient to use -*- -*- for something simple.
Well, preconv acts as a filter -- as do (almost) all components in
groff -- thus reading something from the `end of a file' (a) needs a
temporary buffer since the input data stream is `stdin' in most cases
and (b) isn't implemented in preconv due to (a).
Additionally, I'm not aware of any other special case except this one;
man pages act this way since at least 20 years AFAIK.
Werner
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- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/06
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Glenn Morris, 2007/11/06
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/07
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/08
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/11/09
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Glenn Morris, 2007/11/09
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Richard Stallman, 2007/11/10
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/11/12
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Glenn Morris, 2007/11/12
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/11/12
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Glenn Morris, 2007/11/12
- Re: file variables and man pages with preprocessors, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/11/13