From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] core/pkg-utils: add a macro to pretty-print a help entry
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:27:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310202711.GD3424@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12788059.xfbTEnnL3q@sagittea>
J?r?me, All,
On 2016-03-10 10:31 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller spake thusly:
> Hello Arnout, Yann,
>
> On Thursday 10 March 2016 00:37:17 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > On 03/09/16 23:22, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > + for h in $(1); do \
> > > + printf " %-22s - %s\n" "$${h%% : *}" "$${h#* : }"; \
> > > + done
> Personally, I dislike this automatic splitting of argument. Especially,
> this macro is not obvious and it may look like black magic.
Hmmm... Standard shell expansions that have been documented in POSIX
for, like, forever... And really, if you find this to be black magic,
I'm not sure what to say...
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 22:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] core: allow for custom, local help; rearrange package-specific help (branch yem/help) Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/8] core: add the possibility to provide help for local, custom rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:35 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 20:22 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-11 0:01 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] core/pkg-utils: add a macro to pretty-print a help entry Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:37 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 9:31 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-03-10 20:27 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-03-10 20:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/8] core/pkg-generic: add help about package-specific rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/8] package/busybox: use the generic help rules Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/8] linux: add " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 9:21 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2016-03-10 9:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 9:52 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 10:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:34 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 20:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:29 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] package/uclibc: use " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 7/8] boot/barebox: " Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:47 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 8/8] docs/manual: document the br2-external help-local Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:35 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/8] core: allow for custom, local help; rearrange package-specific help (branch yem/help) Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 8:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 20:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 21:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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