sysconf: Remove visual line-break after .Dd in man-pages (ziaee)

[ziaee]

Since it doesn't do anything, it is not necessary to remove them. However, since it doesn't do anything, it is kinda nice to remove them. To clarify, I was not asking you to remove them, I was just asking where you got the idea to do this because I have never seen anyone do this. Usually weird undocumented stuff comes from copying other files, so that's what I was wondering.

[dteske]

In D59746#1371500, @ziaee wrote:

Since it doesn't do anything, it is not necessary to remove them. However, since it doesn't do anything, it is kinda nice to remove them. To clarify, I was not asking you to remove them, I was just asking where you got the idea to do this because I have never seen anyone do this. Usually weird undocumented stuff comes from copying other files, so that's what I was wondering.

Oh, it occurred to me to introduce a blaring eye-sore to highlight .Dd so it gets bumped, because in the past I have been guilty of straight-up forgetting to bump .Dd (so often so, that I was often reminded that I forgot).

It became so common because I so infrequently updated man-pages that I somehow got it into my head that every single change in any way deserved a golden rule of ALWAYS BUMP .Dd — which I learned from you and imp yesterday that there is a more refined logic to apply.

The visual separator started as a .\” but I didn’t like how that did a kind of encapsulation kinda thing sandwiching .Dd between comments above and a nothing-burger comment below.

So, I started playing. I started looking for things that had no effect that could fill the line. Then I remembered that you could split a long macroized line with backslash and I decided to see if that could work, and wammo!

The one-byte line-fill visual separator was born.