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Re: url's in --help output


From: 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




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