[bug #59030] some warnings still emitted with

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #59030 (project groff):

Apparently hitting an accidental "return" with the cursor in the summary field
tells savannah "Submit this now!" no matter how few fields are populated.

The summary was to have read, "some warnings still emitted with all warnings
turned off".

The body was to have read:


$ echo .nr .g 4 | groff -Ww
troff: <standard input>:1: error: can't write read-only register


-Ww is supposed to silence all warnings, but doesn't.

Why would this one need to be silenced, you wonder?  Isn't trying to assign to
a read-only register something the user should just correct?

As it turns out, using the .g register to distinguish GNU groff from Heirloom
troff is not as straightforward as it should be, because Heirloom has a "groff
compatibility mode" that sets .g to 1.  What _is_ different between them,
however, is that Heirloom lets you assign to .g, whereas groff (as the example
above shows) does not.  So this is a reliable test to see which troff you're
running; however, it generates an unsilenceable warning in groff.

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