Re: version-etc tweak

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Asselstine
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > For what it's worth, argp uses `Report bugs to > .', i.e. no package name. > My 2 cents for the sake of clarity: argp doesn't add the enclosing `<' '>'. Ben

argp vs ':', '+', and '-' in getopt

2009-11-06 Thread Ben Asselstine
Hi folks, Argp doesn't protect the user from picking short options that interfere with argp's getopt implementation. I apologize in advance for any line-splitting that gmail does to this message. Consider the options in the following program: $ ./bug1 --help Usage: bug1 [OPTION...] -+, --plu

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

[PATCH] add set_shells_file function to getusershell module of gnulib

2009-01-18 Thread Ben Asselstine
amble with gmail's word-wrapping. cheers, Ben From 3f3f0ba1d1f14bfeba26020ddbfcefe52d82b370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Asselstine Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:27:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 2009-01-18 Ben Asselstine getusershell: new function: set_shells_file; new header: