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From: Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek@redhat.com>
To: kbd@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [kbd] Man pages and usage messages review
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:27:26 +0200
Message-ID: <93f2dac8-1ad8-ef63-137f-fe495d56a27c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160426161303.GA22703@nyan>

On 04/26/2016 06:13 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
> Vitezslav Crhonek wrote:
>> I reviewed consistency of man pages and usage messages in almost all
>> utilities shipped within kbd. Patch attached.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Vitezslav Crhonek
>
> Thanks for your work!
>
> I think that there can be even more consistency:
>
> $ grep ' version' kbd-documentation-consistency.patch | grep -v usage
> +Prints the program's version number and exits.
> +Prints version number and exits.
> +prints its version number and exits.
> +prints version and exits.
>  Display a version number and exit.
> +Display a version number and exit.
> +Prints version and exists.
>  the option \-V prints the program version number.
> +       -V --version        display version\n\
> +                 "   -V                   display program version\n"),
> +                         "  -V --version       display version\n"),
> +               "   -V     prints version and exits\n"
> +                 " -V --version    Print version and exit.\n"
> +"      -V --version    display version\n"
>
>
> Felix


Well, I meant content consistency in particular, not exact wording, but
yeah, you're right.

Vita



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26 11:54 Vitezslav Crhonek
2016-04-26 16:13 ` Felix Janda
2016-04-27  7:27   ` Vitezslav Crhonek [this message]
2016-05-09  8:50     ` Alexey Gladkov
2016-05-09 11:47       ` Vitezslav Crhonek

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