Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Karl Berry
I would not apply the <...> markup to mail addresses, only to URLs. Ok, fine by me. rms doesn't like angle brackets around email addresses either.

Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > How about this change to standards.texi: > > -Report bugs to @var{mailing-address}. > +Report bugs to: <@var{mailing-address}> I would not apply the <...> markup to mail addresses, only to URLs. Reason: While many mailer programs we are used to allow entering email addresses s

Re: merging the three forks of dfa.c ?

2009-01-31 Thread Tony Abou-Assaleh
Bruno Haible wrote: > So, what I offer and expect is: > - I offer to do the merge this time now, > - I (or the other gnulib maintainers) put in changes and fixes that you > report (until you get gnulib git write access by yourself), > - When you make changes to dfa.c in your projects, you

Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Ben Asselstine
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >The <...> markup is helpful when the URL is broken into two lines, > Let's not forget about argp. Here's a patch to sync it to the new format. Unfortunately it will require users of argp_program_bug_address who used enclosing '<', '>' to c

Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Karl Berry
The <...> markup is helpful when the URL is broken into two lines, Ok, I give. How about this change to standards.texi: --- standards.texi.~1.184.~ 2009-01-26 10:15:16.0 -0800 +++ standards.texi 2009-01-31 14:21:34.0 -0800 @@ -1094,5 +1094,5 @@ general page for help

Re: merging the three forks of dfa.c ?

2009-01-31 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi Bruno, Tony, I didn't know that dfa was used in gettext. What version of the grep dfa did you start with? To answer your question, I am willing to pull from an upstream gnulib version, but on two conditions: 1. The functionality must remain the same. In particular, at some point in between

fts finds no files under mingw

2009-01-31 Thread kodis
I've found a problem with the gnulib fts module. When using the mingw cross compiler, the fts_read routine never finds any files or directories other than the directories supplied to the preceeding fts_open call. It seems that this will happen on any platform that doesn't have a working dirfd fun

merging the three forks of dfa.c ?

2009-01-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Aharon, Tony, There are now three variants of dfa.h and dfa.c in use in various GNU projects: - in GNU grep, - in GNU gawk, - in GNU gettext. All of them have different bugs and different fixes applied. Last week, while testing the GNU grep prerelease, I had to report fixes for things

Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > Ralf pointed out to me in separate email that the <...> allow > better recognition in some contexts. I don't necessarily advocate for > never using <...>, but I don't see a specific reason to do so here. The <...> markup is helpful when the URL is broken into two lines, such a

Re: url's in --help output

2009-01-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:04:25AM CET: > > Ralf pointed out to me in separate email that the <...> allow > better recognition in some contexts. I don't necessarily advocate for > never using <...>, but I don't see a specific reason to do so here. Well, they allow reco