From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: manpages: consistent syntax
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:49:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4843D047.40103@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805281844480.16560@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> commit 314cc5f0dd48c047e660f45aaaf4e86675ab5d74
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> Date: Tue May 6 19:47:33 2008 +0200
>
> manpages: consistent syntax
>
> In the manpages, bold is used to denote characters the user has to
> enter verbatim, italic denotes placeholders and non-highlighted
> pieces are used as a structure: "[]" specifying an optional part,
> "{}" a mandatory part, with "|" used for alternations. The "!" for
> negation is better supported before the option than after it, too.
> The patch makes a few files consistent with this style already used
> in manpages.
Applied, thanks. Please remember to sign off iptables patches in the
future.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-28 15:04 [PATCH] fixed the position of the exclamation mark Max Kellermann
2008-05-28 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 16:45 ` manpages: consistent syntax Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-02 10:49 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-05 14:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-05 14:51 ` Patrick McHardy
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