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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
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Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:14:11 +0100 |
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On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.
>
> The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also
> used in the sed manual. It's a little odd but it sort of rhymes with
> "fourth".
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I think NUMBER is a bit long, and reduces the space for the description,
or it my destroy the aligning.
My suggestion is NUM (which is also used in grep(1) BTW).
Patch attached ... it's just not so tiny because I also fixed the order
of the options of tail in the Texinfo manual.
Have a nice day,
Berny
0001-doc-avoid-confusing-K-argument-in-the-man-pages-of-h.patch
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- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Dan Jacobson, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Assaf Gordon, 2015/11/28
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Bernhard Voelker, 2015/11/29
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Jim Meyering, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Paul Eggert, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages,
Bernhard Voelker <=
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages, Pádraig Brady, 2015/11/30