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Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite ... 63 64 66 67 73 ... failed
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Derek Price |
Subject: |
Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.59c] testsuite ... 63 64 66 67 73 ... failed |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:08:39 -0400 |
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Stepan Kasal wrote:
>+Also note that Posix requires that the arguments of commands @samp{b},
>address@hidden, @samp{r}, @samp{w} have to be separated by exactly one space.
>+On the other hand, no white space is allowed between @samp{:} and the
>+following label name.
>
>
"have to be" is redundant with "requires" here, at best, and the English
"following" is used so often in documentation to refer to a piece of
text that follows the statement that I thought it somewhat ambiguous and
confusing here. I committed the following rewording to this:
diff -u -p -r1.918 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 24 Jun 2005 00:54:01 -0000 1.918
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 28 Jun 2005 13:02:30 -0000
@@ -12250,10 +12250,10 @@ $ @kbd{echo "foo" | sed -n '/bar/ !p'}
foo
@end example
-Also note that Posix requires that the arguments of commands @samp{b},
address@hidden, @samp{r}, @samp{w} have to be separated by exactly one space.
-On the other hand, no white space is allowed between @samp{:} and the
-following label name.
+Also note that Posix requires that the arguments of the @samp{b}, @samp{t},
address@hidden, and @samp{w} commands be separated by exactly one space from
their
+command. On the other hand, no white space is allowed between @samp{:}
and the
+subsequent label name.
@item @command{sed} (@samp{t})
@c ---------------------------
Derek