From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Cc: kerolasa@gmail.com, util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: man-pages and usage() howto
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110816104652.GA14535@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313485424.19019.140258130122469@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:03:44AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > command [options] file
>
> If in the usage() help text the arguments of options are written in
> uppercase, wouldn't it be more consistent to then also write the
It depends, Semi's version is uppercase, but my (findmnt, blkid,
lsblk, ...) is <lowercase> :-)
> About the other things I have not yet an opinion.
I made the decision, --option <argument>. We can play with it little
bit more in the next release. Now I'd like to release it...
It would be also nice to sync man pages with usage() format. Note
that man pages changes are acceptable for -rc2.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-16 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 14:19 man-pages and usage() howto Karel Zak
2011-08-15 19:12 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-16 9:03 ` Benno Schulenberg
2011-08-16 10:46 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-08-17 13:07 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-20 9:10 ` Benno Schulenberg
2011-08-20 19:08 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-21 10:56 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-22 8:16 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-22 18:53 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-22 20:38 ` Benno Schulenberg
2011-08-23 8:15 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-23 18:55 ` Benno Schulenberg
2011-08-23 19:34 ` Sami Kerola
2011-08-16 10:39 ` Karel Zak
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