From: Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>
Subject: Re: bgpd: drop authors from RFC list
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:44:45 +0000

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 01:31:18PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/01/17 13:28, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 01:22:37PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> > > The list of authors does not add value to the bgpd manual page.
> > > So I think it is better to just drop them. With this the list of RFCs
> > > becomes shorter and is easier to read.
> 
> No objection to removing author names. (I looked to see if there was a
> sensible way to add links to the RFCs in HTML output, which would make
> it easier to look them up if wanted - but I don't think there is, at
> least without the URL also showing up in the console output which
> makes things much worse there).
> 
> > No objection. I find the underlines impede readability a lot more.
> 
> It wouldn't be quite as bad if the underline was continuous (like it is
> in mandoc's HTML output e.g. on man.openbsd.org), but the way it's split
> between words doesn't look great on the terminal.
> 
> FWIW this is possible (at least for xterm and urxvt, maybe others),
> though that's a bit ugly too..
> 
> *VT100*colorUL: yellow
> *VT100*colorULMode: true
> 
> or urxvt
> 
> Rxvt*colorUL: yellow
> Rxvt*colorULMode: true
> Rxvt*underlineColor: black
> 

i'm also in the "hate underline" camp. i read on the console and i don;t
know of an easy way to change it, but i long ago edited my termcap entry
to replace underline with something less horrible.

jmc