Replace the kludge for the \z escape sequence by an actual

implementation.  As a side effect, minus ten lines of code.

As another side effect, this also fixes the assertion failure that
used to be triggered by "\z\o'ab'c" at the beginning of an output
line, found by jsg@ with afl (test case 022/Apr27).

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/roff.7 b/roff.7
index bb44f6b4..d7515f40 100644
--- a/roff.7
+++ b/roff.7
@@ -2028,10 +2028,7 @@ Print
 with zero width and height; ignored by
 .Xr mandoc 1 .
 .Ss \ez
-Output the next character without advancing the cursor position;
-approximated in
-.Xr mandoc 1
-by simply skipping the next character.
+Output the next character without advancing the cursor position.
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY
 The
 .Xr mandoc 1