Re: splitting up --help text, sorting --where alphabetically

[Benno Schulenberg]

Ben Asselstine wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 6:22 AM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> wrote: 
> > change the text for 'info --help' now, please seize the
> > opportunity to split this text into smaller chunks,
>
> I have heard other people say that the large strings give
> translators more context to work with.

I think those other people are referring there to not cutting up a 
single sentence or a single coherent paragraph into separate 
strings.

> I'd like to implement command-line parsing with argp for `info'. 
> The strings would be smaller and the option handling code could
> be removed from the main function.

No objections from me.  :)  It will be some work for translators to 
catch up, but later on it will be easier for them to keep it up to 
date.

Hmm, by the way, why are doc/info.1 and other doc/*.1 files in CVS 
when they are generated files?  Shouldn't these filenames be added 
to .cvsignore?

Benno