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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: kerolasa@gmail.com
Cc: "util-linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] pull: almost complete setterm refactoring
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:11:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400573509.16753.119372357.3CE7F060@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG27Bk2qzzF2BNp=ec+x4zn8WOc40CNn8qKyG9_H5+mdWHb5ew@mail.gmail.com>


Some day Karel Zak wrote:
> >     _(" -hbcolor <bright> <color>\n")
> >
> > and describe below in usage():
> >
> >    _(" <color> means black, blue, ...")

But but but... the word "bright" is not a placeholder, it must not
be replaced by something else, as <color> by blue, for example.
It is a literal argument, so should not take <>, and it is optional,
so it should take [].  No?

Benno

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-18 14:05 [PATCH 00/17] pull: almost complete setterm refactoring Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 01/17] setterm: clean up includes Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 02/17] setterm: use getopt_long_only() for option parsing Sami Kerola
2014-05-19  9:29   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 03/17] setterm: use string utils to numeric parsing Sami Kerola
2014-05-19  9:24   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 04/17] setterm: move show_tabs() and screendump() functions Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 05/17] setterm: remove usage comment segment Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 06/17] setterm: add option control structure Sami Kerola
2014-05-19  9:38   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-19  9:48   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 07/17] setterm: add init_terminal() to make main() shorter Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 08/17] setterm: clean up screendump() Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 09/17] setterm: remove devfs and /dev/vcsa0 support Sami Kerola
2014-05-19  9:52   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 10/17] setterm: make -msglevel 0 to work as is did earlier Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 11/17] setterm: correct usage() bright color argument Sami Kerola
2014-05-19  9:57   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 12/17] setterm: improve perform_sequence() coding style Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 13/17] setterm: tell user when options does not effect Sami Kerola
2014-05-19 10:02   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 14/17] setterm: improve error messages Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 15/17] setterm: various visual terminal effects are not console specific Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 16/17] setterm: mark some options to be exclusive with each other Sami Kerola
2014-05-18 14:05 ` [PATCH 17/17] setterm: add set_blanking() action Sami Kerola
2014-05-19 21:51 ` [PATCH 00/17] pull: almost complete setterm refactoring Sami Kerola
2014-05-20  8:11   ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2014-05-20 10:02     ` Karel Zak

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