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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 |
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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.
- [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/12
- Re: [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Gavin Smith, 2017/05/13
- Re: [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/14
- Re: [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Gavin Smith, 2017/05/15
- Re: [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/15
- Re: [patch] info: error messages in echo area want a period, Gavin Smith, 2017/05/20
- Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/21
- Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period,
Gavin Smith <=
- Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/21
- Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period, Benno Schulenberg, 2017/05/21