tinyyarn

scenario testing of Unix command line tools
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commit 63662e03b75cb771a0ef070aaf8cba741ca2deda
parent 51befa40a2b5b059c708dfb5d162a9a3b3311af3
Author: Richard Ipsum <richardipsum@vx21.xyz>
Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:04:50 +0000

Add HISTORY section to man page

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diff --git a/tyarn.1 b/tyarn.1 @@ -114,3 +114,17 @@ Display any messages printed to stdout during execution of scenario steps Display any messages printed to stderr during execution of scenario steps .SH "SEE ALSO" yarn(1) +.SH HISTORY +tyarn aims to be faithful to yarn, but there are some differences: +.PP +tyarn requires statements to be indented with four spaces, yarn allows tab +or space indentation. +.PP +yarn supports Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCREs), tyarn supports +POSIX extended regular expressions only. +.PP +yarn treats whitespace differently to tyarn. tyarn will +ignore surplus whitespace between a step keyword and the text +following it i.e. in 'GIVEN foo' the amount of space between 'GIVEN' and 'foo' +is ignored. The text following the initial whitespace is always preserved, +where as yarn normalises whitespace for the entire line.