[bug #42968] mdoc: handle OpenBSD-style $Mdocdate CVS keyword

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42968>

                 Summary: mdoc: handle OpenBSD-style $Mdocdate CVS keyword
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Aug 2014 02:46:10 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

in OpenBSD, we are using CVS keyword substitution to automatically update the
manual page date when committing to the manual page - updating the date was
too often forgotten before this was implemented, and typos crept into the
dates as well.  It looks like this:

.Dd $Mdocdate: March 5 2011 $
.Dt CAT 1
.Os

To make groff handle that, i'm using the following patch.

Maybe you want to include it upstream?
It costs very little, and it helps people who want to read OpenBSD manuals on
other operating systems.



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Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014 02:46:10 PM UTC  Name: Mdocdate.patch  Size: 610B   By:
None
patch to tmac/doc-common
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=31889>

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