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[PATCH] Tweak some help messages: change third person to imperative for
From: |
bensberg |
Subject: |
[PATCH] Tweak some help messages: change third person to imperative for consistency, add single quotes and remove letters for clarity |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:23:18 +0200 |
From: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
---
parted/parted.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parted/parted.c b/parted/parted.c
index fb23462..4107ae0 100644
--- a/parted/parted.c
+++ b/parted/parted.c
@@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ NULL),
str_list_create_unique ("help", _("help"), NULL),
do_help,
str_list_create (
-_("help [COMMAND] prints general help, or help "
+_("help [COMMAND] print general help, or help "
"on COMMAND"),
NULL),
NULL, 1));
@@ -2094,7 +2094,7 @@ NULL),
_(mkpart_fs_type_msg),
_(start_end_msg),
"\n",
-_("mkpart makes a partition without creating a new file system on the "
+_("'mkpart' makes a partition without creating a new file system on the "
"partition. FS-TYPE may be specified to set an appropriate partition
ID.\n"),
NULL), 1));
@@ -2128,16 +2128,18 @@ command_register (commands, command_create (
do_print,
str_list_create (
_("print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER] display the partition table, "
- "a partition, or all devices"),
+ "available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a particular "
+ "partition"),
NULL),
str_list_create (
-_("Without arguments, print displays the entire partition table. However "
- "with the following arguments it performs the various other actions.\n"),
-_("a. devices : display all active block devices\n"),
-_("b. free : display information about free unpartitioned space on the "
+_("Without arguments, 'print' displays the entire partition table. However "
+ "with the following arguments it performs various other actions.\n"),
+_(" devices : display all active block devices\n"),
+_(" free : display information about free unpartitioned space on the "
"current block device\n"),
-_("c. list,all: display partition tables of all active block devices\n"),
-_("d. NUMBER : display more detail information about particular partition\n"),
+_(" list, all : display the partition tables of all active block devices\n"),
+_(" NUMBER : display more detailed information about this particular "
+ "partition\n"),
NULL), 1));
command_register (commands, command_create (
@@ -2214,11 +2216,11 @@ command_register (commands, command_create (
str_list_create_unique ("version", _("version"), NULL),
do_version,
str_list_create (
-_("version displays the current version "
-"of GNU Parted and copyright information"),
+_("version display the version number "
+"and copyright information of GNU Parted"),
NULL),
str_list_create (
-_("version displays copyright and version information corressponding to this "
+_("'version' displays copyright and version information corresponding to this "
"copy of GNU Parted\n"),
NULL), 1));
--
1.4.4.4
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