Re: [PATCH 3/9] doc/bash.1, doc/bashref.texi: Align wording.

2024-12-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-12-30T11:12:12-0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/16/24 12:47 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The > > @option{--norc} > > -option inhibits this behavior, and the > > -@option{--rcfile} > > -option makes Bash use a different file instead of > > +option will inhibit this behavior, and the

Re: [PATCH 3/9] doc/bash.1, doc/bashref.texi: Align wording.

2024-12-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/16/24 12:47 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: The @option{--norc} -option inhibits this behavior, and the -@option{--rcfile} -option makes Bash use a different file instead of +option will inhibit this behavior, and the +@option{--rcfile} option +will make Bash use a different file inste

[PATCH 7/9] Improve bash.1 man page/bashref.texi alignment.

2024-12-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
man page as it is in Texinfo. Write "key-value pairs" with a plain hyphen, not a minus sign. --- doc/bash.1 | 427 + doc/bashref.texi | 538 +-- 2 files changed, 678 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-) di

[PATCH 3/9] doc/bash.1, doc/bashref.texi: Align wording.

2024-12-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
* Perform Kemper notectomy. * Break lines in the same places to ease diffing. * Align verb tenses. --- doc/bash.1 | 11 ++- doc/bashref.texi | 28 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1 index 54ebb696

Re: [PATCH 09/25] doc/bashref.texi: Favor present tense over future.

2024-11-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/22/24 4:32 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi Chet, I should note that I have further patches in preparation to make parallel changes to the man pages. I meant to hold this one back until those were ready. Send whatever you have when you're ready. I will apply where necessary. -- ``The

Re: [PATCH 09/25] doc/bashref.texi: Favor present tense over future.

2024-11-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
24-11-21T22:21:07-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > --- > doc/bashref.texi | 103 +-- > 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi > index ffaa863b..74581695 100644 > ---

[PATCH 09/25] doc/bashref.texi: Favor present tense over future.

2024-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
--- doc/bashref.texi | 103 +-- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi index ffaa863b..74581695 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.texi +++ b/doc/bashref.texi @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ @node Top Prefixing

[PATCH 08/25] doc/bashref.texi: Use typesetter's quotation marks.

2024-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
--- doc/bashref.texi | 7 --- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi index e8db1bfe..ffaa863b 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.texi +++ b/doc/bashref.texi @@ -7068,9 +7068,10 @@ @node Top The @samp{numeric} specifier treats names

[PATCH 05/25] doc/bash.1, doc/bashref.texi: Resync.

2024-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Break lines in similar places; this eases diffing. Also apply wording changes that didn't get reflected in bashref.texi or bash.1, preferring whichever edit was more recent. --- doc/bash.1 | 74 +-- doc/bashref.texi

[PATCH 07/25] doc/bashref.texi: Add internal cross reference.

2024-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
bash.1 has one in the same place. --- doc/bashref.texi | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi index 2be71c2d..e8db1bfe 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.texi +++ b/doc/bashref.texi @@ -8435,6 +8435,7 @@ @node Top declare -a @var{name} @end example

[PATCH 04/25] doc/bash.1, doc/bashref.texi: Align wording.

2024-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
* Perform Kemper notectomy. * Break lines in the same places to ease diffing. * Align verb tenses. --- doc/bash.1 | 11 ++- doc/bashref.texi | 40 ++-- 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1 index

Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-18 Thread tpeplt
Chet Ramey writes: > On 3/17/24 12:50 PM, tpeplt wrote: >> Searching the file bash-master/doc/bashref.texi gives no instance of >> "syslog" or "syslog_history". An entry for ‘syslog_history’ is provided >> in the ‘man’ page for ‘bash’: >> syslo

Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-18 Thread Chet Ramey
ffort. I don't document those. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-master.tar.gz Searching the file bash-master/doc/bashref.texi gives no instance of "syslog" or "syslog_history". An entry for ‘syslog_history’ is provided in the ‘man’ page f

Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-17 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, at 12:49 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:30:49 +0200 > Oğuz wrote: > >> On Sunday, March 17, 2024, tpeplt wrote: >> > >> >The texinfo version of the bash manual is missing a description of >> > the ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’. >> > >> >> That must

Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-17 Thread Kerin Millar
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:30:49 +0200 Oğuz wrote: > On Sunday, March 17, 2024, tpeplt wrote: > > > >The texinfo version of the bash manual is missing a description of > > the ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’. > > > > That must be a vendor extension, bash doesn't have such an option. It has su

Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-17 Thread Oğuz
On Sunday, March 17, 2024, tpeplt wrote: > >The texinfo version of the bash manual is missing a description of > the ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’. > That must be a vendor extension, bash doesn't have such an option. -- Oğuz

Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

2024-03-17 Thread tpeplt
/bashref.texi gives no instance of "syslog" or "syslog_history". An entry for ‘syslog_history’ is provided in the ‘man’ page for ‘bash’: syslog_history If set, command history is logged to syslog. To match the ‘man’ page for ‘bash’, an entry should be added to ‘bashr

Re: bashref.texi

2015-03-08 Thread Luc Teirlinck
It's not a bug, and the filename should be `bash'. `bash.info' is created from bashref.info by doc/Makefile, and installed by `make install' I see. So my problem was that I downloaded bashref.info from the bash web site and installed it manually into the directory that contains the .

Re: bashref.texi

2015-03-08 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/8/15 4:51 PM, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > It's not a bug, and the filename should be `bash'. `bash.info' is > created from bashref.info by doc/Makefile, and installed by `make > install' > > I see. So my problem was that I downloaded bashref.info from the bash > web site and installe

Re: bashref.texi

2015-03-08 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/7/15 11:20 PM, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > I downloaded bashref.texi from your site. I believe that the following > is a documentation bug: > > @direntry > * Bash: (bash). The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. > @end direntry > > After adding that line to the d

bashref.texi

2015-03-08 Thread Luc Teirlinck
I downloaded bashref.texi from your site. I believe that the following is a documentation bug: @direntry * Bash: (bash). The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. @end direntry After adding that line to the dir file and doing "C-h i" in emacs, that line did _appear_, but doing

typo: bashref.texi, node Optional Features: "directpand-default"

2014-05-02 Thread Дилян Палаузов
Hello, as of bash 4.3, doc/bashref.texi, Node Installing Bash > Optional Features contains 8021 All of the following options except for @samp{disabled-builtins}, 8022 @samp{directpand-default}, and 8023 @samp{xpg-echo-default} are 8024 enabled by default, unless the operating system does

bashref.texi niglets

2012-08-22 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Chet, Perusing bashref.texi ... 1) Technically, version.texi should be before the %**end of header. 2) @setchapternewpage odd creates blank pages. There's no need to inflict them on everyone by default. If the FSF or anyone wants that for printing, they can always use -t @setchapterne

bashref.texi typos

2012-05-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
diff --git a/doc/bashref.texi b/doc/bashref.texi index 19c56c1..9fa99dc 100644 --- a/doc/bashref.texi +++ b/doc/bashref.texi @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ Bash uses the value of the variable formed from the rest of expanded and that value is used in the rest of the substitution, rather than the value

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/11 4:54 PM, Roger wrote: > Can see POSIX compatibility is likely an issue here. How so? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/11 6:37 PM, rogerx@gmail.com wrote: > > SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS : compgen > > First paragraph > > Run-on sentence/Repetitive statement (aka Too wordy) > > Original Text: When using the -F or -C options, the various shell variables > set by the > programmable completion facilities,

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/12/11 1:58 AM, Roger wrote: > Question: Should I post this man file corrects here to the mailing list like > this? As I read through the bash manpage, some sections are just horrible > reading, but other sections seem really well structured. > > I've only fiddled with groff & much less .tex.

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread Roger
Question: Should I post this man file corrects here to the mailing list like this? As I read through the bash manpage, some sections are just horrible reading, but other sections seem really well structured. I've only fiddled with groff & much less .tex. Should I learn .tex or just post my corre

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread rogerx . oss
SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS : compgen First paragraph Run-on sentence/Repetitive statement (aka Too wordy) Original Text: When using the -F or -C options, the various shell variables set by the programmable completion facilities, while available, will not have useful values." Solution: strike "

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread Roger
Hi Ben. I'm currently reading the Bash manual on my Kindle EBook reader, now half way through, and noticed the section "EXPANSION - Parameter Expansion" was a little vague. I couldn't understand the entire section until I happened across fetchmail's init script. Stuff I rarely seen or skipped ov

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-18 Thread Karl Berry
> hmm as a side effect you broke all the links to bashref.html out there... Oh yeah :). I'll put in a redirect, or something. Thanks, k

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-18 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > On this mail from last month ... > >Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:03:25 -0400 >vincent> > The thing is that when you get the manual from this page >> > [[http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz]] > >chet> I don'

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-17 Thread Chet Ramey
> On this mail from last month ... > > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:03:25 -0400 > vincent> > The thing is that when you get the manual from this page > > > [[http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz]] > > chet> I don't distribute that. Try the bashref manual from

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-05-17 Thread Karl Berry
On this mail from last month ... Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:03:25 -0400 vincent> > The thing is that when you get the manual from this page > > [[http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz]] chet> I don't distribute that. Try the bashref manual from the source

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-04-20 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Hello The thing is that when you get the manual from this page [[http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz]] Then you get the following files: --8<-coupez ici--début-->8--- -rw-rw-r--karl/root 5429 bashref.info -rw-rw-r--karl

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-04-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 4/20/10 1:56 PM, Vincent Belaïche wrote: > Hello > > The thing is that when you get the manual from this page > > [[http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.info.tar.gz]] I don't distribute that. Try the bashref manual from the source distribution. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the c

Re: Patch to bashref.texi

2010-04-20 Thread Chet Ramey
> The two following parts of this messages are > 1. Changelog > 2. Patch > > Note that I did not checked the patch. If you had, you would have discovered that doc/Makefile installs the generated file as `bash.info'. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Patch to bashref.texi

2010-04-20 Thread Vincent Belaïche
The two following parts of this messages are 1. Changelog 2. Patch Note that I did not checked the patch. Vincent. 2010-04-20 Vincent Belaïche * bashref.texi: Correct @direnty declaration, otherwise after install-info is made, the manuel cannot be found