Bug#482327: document comments continuation lines
Package: xorg-docs
Version: 1:1.4-2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.gz
Tags: patch
This man page mentions comments, and \newline broken lines, but
doesn't mention if one can do
!*VT100.font: -arphic-ar pl uming \
tw-light-r-normal--17-120-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
or needs to do
!*VT100.font: -arphic-ar pl uming \
! tw-light-r-normal--17-120-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
like bash, to comment this continuation line.
My experiments show me that the former is sufficient. Please document
that fact. Maybe something like:
*** /tmp/X.7 2008-05-22 02:10:10.478695000 +0800
--- /tmp/X.7.new 2008-05-22 02:09:22.074695980 +0800
***************
*** 815,820 ****
--- 815,822 ----
the two-character sequence ``\\\^\fInewline\fP''
(backslash followed by newline) is
recognized and removed from the value.
+ (This operation is performed before comment parsing, hence one need
+ only prefix a "!" at the first line of a continued line.)
To allow a Value to contain arbitrary character codes,
the four-character sequence ``\\\^\fInnn\fP'',
where each \fIn\fP is a digit character in the range of ``0''\-``7'',
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