Re: Question about makevarescape.sed in groff-1.22.4 tarball

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Mike,

I replied to your earlier post to the groff list.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-01/msg00026.html

Regards,
Branden

At 2023-01-14T04:07:33+0000, Mike Fulton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The last line of the makevarescape.sed is:
> 
> ```
> s|[^ ]/\+|&\\\\:|g
> ```
> 
> I do not understand why it is making the change it is, but if I do
> 
> ```
> ./configure 
> --prefix=/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine<mailto:--prefix=/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine>
> ```
> 
> On my Mac, or a similar type of line under z/OS, then the man pages seem to 
> have strange escape sequences added to them.
> For example, on my Mac, this results in the line:
> 
> ```
> .I 
> /Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/\:tty\-char.tmac<mailto:/Users/fultonm@ca.ibm.com/Documents/Development/mine/share/groff/1.22.4/tmac/\:tty\-char.tmac>
> ```
> 
> Being generated in the ./src/roff/nroff/nroff.1 file
> 
> Thanks, Mike
>

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