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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:36:23 +0000 |
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On 30/11/15 21:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 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.
Lots of little changes adding up to a much better result.
Looks good.
Marking bug as done.
thanks!
Pádraig
- 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, 2015/11/30
- bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages,
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