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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