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Re: [Nano-devel] [patch] synopsis, and some descriptions


From: David Lawrence Ramsey
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] [patch] synopsis, and some descriptions
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:25:20 -0400
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Benno Schulenberg wrote:

<snip>

> But some experimentation shows that the COLUMN part is optional, and
> that every filename may be preceded with a line-column pair.  Also,
> mentioning long options separately gives the impression that these
> should come first, which isn't the case.  So a more accurate synopsis
> would be:
>
>     nano [OPTION]... [[+LINE[,COLUMN]] FILE]...
>
> The first patch makes this change; in the info document in a more
> elaborate way, for clarity.

Good catch.  Added to CVS, with a few cosmetic tweaks to the info
document (e.g. I didn't know about the @dots{} directive, so I added it
to a few places where there were literal ...'s).

> The second patch corrects a few typos, changes the wording here and
> there, and synchronizes some descriptions in the info document with
> the man page.

Added to CVS, also with a few tweaks (e.g. the changes in nano.1 are
also added to the corresponding text in rnano.1).  Thank you.





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