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Make the manpage consistent with the code on the subject of comments, as to

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not change the code to always do the "GNU" thing, as it's possible people
rely on BSD m4(1) traditionally resetting comment characters in case of no
arguments to the changecom function.

PR:	bin/17480 (I think this satisfies the problem report)
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Juli Mallett 2002-06-03 20:35:35 +00:00
parent e364f0da42
commit ee3cbef6be
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=97780
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@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ Changes the start and end comment sequences.
The default is the pound sign
.Pq Ql #
and the newline character.
With no arguments comments are turned off.
With no arguments, the comment sequence is reset to the default,
in GNU
.Nm
mode, comments are turned off.
The maximum length for a comment marker is five characters.
.It Ic changequote
Defines the quote symbols to be the first and second arguments.