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doc: Clean up roff source in manpage #7819

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Delete redundant .fi request
Alhadis committed Jul 21, 2016
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@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ node \- Server-side JavaScript runtime


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What's this do? (the .fi and then .)

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.fi: That turns on filling mode, which I forgot is enabled by default. Turning it off with .nf would result in this:
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.: That's the safe way of inserting blank lines for readability in a roff document. Inserting a blank line-break without a control-character tells the interpreter that the line is to be interpreted as content, and it adds another line-break onto the output (which is moot if filling-mode is enabled anyway).

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