Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached the promised batch of other string fixes. > > The sixth patch removes brackets around the MMDD... part on the > second synopsis line of 'date'. They are unneeded, because the > first synopsis line already desscribes the possibility of having > zero arguments or only an option argument. Removing the brackets > makes it clearer what "or set the system date" refers to. > > The equal signs in the eighth patch (to 'dd') are just a suggestion. > If not acceptable, then at least the "xM M" should move to the end > of the line; it is rather confusing to find it there out of order. > Maybe leave it out altogether?
I've left it, as in your patch. Better to document it, imho. > In the thirteenth patch (to 'fmt'), maybe replace -DIGITS with > -WIDTH, as in the Info document? Or maybe deprecate the option, as > it is for 'fold'? Having one accept it and the other not seems odd. I agree, so changed it to "-WIDTH" in both places. > Some of these synopsis changes may need to be made to the Info > documents too, I haven't systematically checked that. echo's \c correction did indeed need to be fixed in coreutils.texi, so I amended your change. Thanks for all of those fixes! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
