On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 10:50 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm hesitant to apply your patch. > > I see --help output as having three columns - short options, long > options, and description. Many options have both short and long (in > your example, -v and --show-nonprinting), some have short only (-u), and > some have long only (--help). I see nothing wrong with the alignment of > the first two columns in the above example
Oops, sorry I missed this. I agree with your view. > An even nicer fix would be to write a word-wrapping algorithm, that > takes $COLUMNS into account, and formats all of the columns (short > option, long option, and description) appropriately given the current > screen width and maximum length of the long options column. But that > means a large rewrite of all of the usage() functions to call this new > formatting system. I will try to see, if this doesn't make the code unnecessarily complex. Thanks, this issue can be closed. - jesse
