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Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page



On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 11:27:32PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> At 2017-11-02T04:55:25-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > thanks - someone reported a problem with the same macro in ncurses.
> > (I'll have to make a script to check for other instances, since I've
> > used bullets in a lot of places - I've a to-do item for that anyway).
> 
> Thanks to a bug in gropdf, I discovered a problem with the patch in this
> part:
> 
> 17. Use character escape '\e' instead of '\\' in resource translation
>     examples.  '\\' does not render as desired and makes the examples
>     wrong.
> 
> The \\ problem is indeed a problem but my fix was wrong thanks to:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?51568
> 
> Once I have it ready, would you prefer a whole new diff against
> xterm-330, or something else?

if there aren't a lot of special-case/followups, this is enough
(thanks)

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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