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Re: url's in --help output
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Karl Berry |
Subject: |
Re: url's in --help output |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:58:15 -0600 |
Sorry for the delayed reply.
> What do you think of this followup, which makes complete sentences, and
> consistently brackets URLs inside <>?
...
+ printf (_("%s home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/%s/>.\n"),
+ printf (_("General help using GNU software:
<http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.\n"));
Obviously it's not a big deal, but I'm not crazy about it.
1) The two above aren't sentences.
2) Adding punctuation around url's just makes them more painful to cut
and paste. It's easiest when it's bare text at the end of a line.
What is gained?
If we want consistency with the three lines, it could be something like:
Email address for bug reports: @var{mailing-address}
@var{pkg} home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/@var{pkg}/
General help using GNU software: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
Of course it's not strictly necessary, but it'd be nice for the
standards and gnulib to match, one way or the other.
Karl
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, (continued)
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/24
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/24
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/24
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/27
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/28
- Re: url's in --help output, Jim Meyering, 2009/01/28
- Re: url's in --help output,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: url's in --help output, Jim Meyering, 2009/01/30
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/30
- Re: url's in --help output, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Bruno Haible, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Ben Asselstine, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Bruno Haible, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/29