Introduce a new mandoc(1) message level, -W style, below -W warning.

Switch -W all from meaning -W warning to meaning -W style.
The meaning of -T lint does *not* change, it still implies -W warning.
No messages on the new level yet, but they will come.

Usually, i do not lightly make the user interface larger.
But this has been planned for years, and EXIT STATUS 1
was reserved for it all the time.  The message system
is now stable enough to finally implement it.

jmc@ regarding the concept: "really good idea"

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/mandoc.1 b/mandoc.1
index b1d80414..a4afd123 100644
--- a/mandoc.1
+++ b/mandoc.1
@@ -146,13 +146,14 @@ to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status.
 The
 .Ar level
 can be
+.Cm style ,
 .Cm warning ,
 .Cm error ,
 or
 .Cm unsupp ;
 .Cm all
 is an alias for
-.Cm warning .
+.Cm style .
 By default,
 .Nm
 is silent.
@@ -594,27 +595,32 @@ option:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
 .It 0
-No warnings or errors occurred, or those that did were ignored because
-they were lower than the requested
+No style suggestions, warnings or errors occurred, or those that
+did were ignored because they were lower than the requested
 .Ar level .
+.It 1
+At least one style suggestion occurred, but no warning or error, and
+.Fl W Cm style
+was specified.
 .It 2
 At least one warning occurred, but no error, and
 .Fl W Cm warning
+or
+.Fl W Cm style
 was specified.
 .It 3
 At least one parsing error occurred,
 but no unsupported feature was encountered, and
 .Fl W Cm error
-or
-.Fl W Cm warning
-was specified.
+or a lower
+.Ar level
+was requested.
 .It 4
 At least one unsupported feature was encountered, and
-.Fl W Cm unsupp ,
-.Fl W Cm error
-or
-.Fl W Cm warning
-was specified.
+.Fl W Cm unsupp
+or a lower
+.Ar level
+was requested.
 .It 5
 Invalid command line arguments were specified.
 No input files have been read.
@@ -714,9 +720,22 @@ rendering can be produced.
 Documents causing warnings may render poorly when using other
 formatting tools instead of
 .Nm .
+.It Cm style
+An input file uses dubious or discouraged style.
+This is not a complaint about the syntax, and probably neither
+formatting nor portability are in danger.
+While great care is taken to avoid false positives on the higher
+message levels, the
+.Cm style
+level tries to reduce the probability that issues go unnoticed,
+so it may occasionally issue bogus suggestions.
+Please use your good judgement to decide whether any particular
+.Cm style
+suggestion really justifies a change to the input file.
 .El
 .Pp
 Messages of the
+.Cm style ,
 .Cm warning ,
 .Cm error ,
 and