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authorBrooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2017-11-27 23:47:57 +0000
committerBrooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2017-11-27 23:47:57 +0000
commit022fad7dfc1d1e367dc331524ae91c74688a3098 (patch)
treebc5a19229ac8c2de69fe0ee42691dd0141de3605 /vis.3
parent46f0e7ccdfb34f49b0cc1de7d00c1429a00f1ff3 (diff)
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'vis.3')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/vis.3 b/vis.3
index bde9c00f08e4..24cd2654d027 100644
--- a/vis.3
+++ b/vis.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: vis.3,v 1.45 2016/06/08 15:00:04 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: vis.3,v 1.49 2017/08/05 20:22:29 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)vis.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\"
-.Dd January 14, 2015
+.Dd April 22, 2017
.Dt VIS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ except space, tab, and newline are encoded (see
The following flags
alter this:
.Bl -tag -width VIS_WHITEX
+.It Dv VIS_DQ
+Also encode double quotes
.It Dv VIS_GLOB
Also encode the magic characters
.Ql ( * ,
@@ -309,7 +311,7 @@ warning on the use of the
.Dv VIS_NOSLASH
flag below).
.Pp
-There are four forms of encoding.
+There are six forms of encoding.
All forms use the backslash character
.Ql \e
to introduce a special
@@ -372,7 +374,6 @@ space.
.It Dv \e240
Represents Meta-space.
.El
-.Pp
.It Dv VIS_CSTYLE
Use C-style backslash sequences to represent standard non-printable
characters.
@@ -401,6 +402,9 @@ If
.Fa nextc
is an octal digit, the latter representation is used to
avoid ambiguity.
+.Pp
+Non-printable characters without C-style
+backslash sequences use the default representation.
.It Dv VIS_OCTAL
Use a three digit octal sequence.
The form is
@@ -408,6 +412,11 @@ The form is
where
.Em d
represents an octal digit.
+.It Dv VIS_CSTYLE \&| Dv VIS_OCTAL
+Same as
+.Dv VIS_CSTYLE
+except that non-printable characters without C-style
+backslash sequences use a three digit octal sequence.
.It Dv VIS_HTTPSTYLE
Use URI encoding as described in RFC 1738.
The form is