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Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 17:45:06 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> By the way, you didn't change the feedback messages about
> being on the first or last node.  Why?

I didn't see the point. The messages were not wrong.

> > I'm more concerned about lines like
> > 
> >   -a, --all                    use all matching manuals.
> > 
> > from the --help text, which possibly shouldn't end in a full stop.
> > It appears to be usual for such lines not to.
> 
> Yes, those option descriptions shouldn't end in a period
> -- it is the usual style, /and/ a period is incorrect when
> a phrase doesn't start with a capital.

OK, I'll change this.



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