Modernised comment handling: text following \" is thrown away before

either parser is invoked.  Single-dot lines correctly handled.  This
confirms with both new- and old-groff.  "Comment" subsection added to
mdoc.7 and man.7.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/man.c b/man.c
index 9074d7f8..9744cc8e 100644
--- a/man.c
+++ b/man.c
@@ -324,10 +324,6 @@ man_pmacro(struct man *m, int ln, char *buf)
 
 	ppos = i;
 
-	if (buf[i] && '\\' == buf[i])
-		if (buf[i + 1] && '\"' == buf[i + 1])
-			goto out;
-
 	/* Copy the first word into a nil-terminated buffer. */
 
 	for (j = 0; j < 4; j++, i++) {