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retrieving revision 1.119
diff -c -r1.118 -r1.119
*** src/usr.bin/mandoc/man.c	2017/04/29 12:43:55	1.118
--- src/usr.bin/mandoc/man.c	2017/05/01 23:27:23	1.119
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*** 1,7 ****
! /*	$OpenBSD: man.c,v 1.118 2017/04/29 12:43:55 schwarze Exp $ */
  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
!  * Copyright (c) 2013, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
   * Copyright (c) 2011 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org>
   *
   * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
--- 1,7 ----
! /*	$OpenBSD: man.c,v 1.119 2017/05/01 23:27:23 schwarze Exp $ */
  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
!  * Copyright (c) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
   * Copyright (c) 2011 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org>
   *
   * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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*** 198,203 ****
--- 198,217 ----
  
  	man_breakscope(man, tok);
  	bline = man->flags & MAN_BLINE;
+ 
+ 	/*
+ 	 * If the line in next-line scope ends with \c, keep the
+ 	 * next-line scope open for the subsequent input line.
+ 	 * That is not at all portable, only groff >= 1.22.4
+ 	 * does it, but *if* this weird idiom occurs in a manual
+ 	 * page, that's very likely what the author intended.
+ 	 */
+ 
+ 	if (bline) {
+ 		cp = strchr(buf + offs, '\0') - 2;
+ 		if (cp >= buf && cp[0] == '\\' && cp[1] == 'c')
+ 			bline = 0;
+ 	}
  
  	/* Call to handler... */