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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to anno.man


From: David Levine
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to anno.man
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:15:25 -0500

Larry wrote:

> The following is the beginning of an attempt to clean up the manual
> pages somewhat.

Patches applied, thank you!

I added one change to each:  there is a last-changed date at the
top of each .man file.

> grep tells me that 'switch' is used 193 times, whereas 'option' is
> only used 51 times, so I've tried to standardise on 'switch'.

Agreed.

> I'm afraid I have no idea what the following is supposed to mean:
>
> The field body is treated as if it is a file name, and only the
> final path name component is listed. The complete field body is
> listed if the -text option is used, the contents of the text are
> ignored.
>
> The second sentence, in particular, seems to be missing something.

Yes, I changed it to:

    The complete field body is listed if the -text switch is used;
    the argument to the -text switch is required but ignored.

David



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