On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:34:31 +0200 Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>
> > Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >> > Is there anyone who's unaware that --help doesn't provide
> >> > complete documentation?
> >>
> >> I would not expect anyone to *not* know that help output is
> >> abridged. But I would rather have them go straight into 'info'
> >> than wasting time on 'man', only to be redirected to 'info'.
> >>
> >> Usually one looks at the '--help' output first. If we redirect
> >> on 'man', why not there?
> >>
> >> Because man pages are secondary on GNU systems, the offical spot
> >> has always been info. The redirection is only for convience for
> >> old timers who still use man.
> >
> > While that may be the official line, practically nobody reads info
> > pages, and if they do it's indirectly through google.
> >
> > I'd vote for removing the translation help line unconditionally
> > (I notice it's not mentioned in man pages) and replace with:
> >
> > For complete documentation, run: info coreutils '$cmd invocation'
>
> Seconded.
Is this, then, good?
From c16d6e93cdc94e890ad653d4caa994ea4c315a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: C de-Avillez <hgg...@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:16:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] --help: link to 'info' for complete docs
* src/system.h:
- take out the translation line
- add a reference to 'info' for complete documentation
---
src/system.h | 13 ++-----------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
index a15c298..1ecdcff 100644
--- a/src/system.h
+++ b/src/system.h
@@ -646,17 +646,8 @@ emit_bug_reporting_address (void)
PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE);
fputs (_("General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>\n"),
stdout);
-
- if (hard_locale (LC_MESSAGES))
- {
- /* TRANSLATORS: Replace LANG_CODE in this URL with your language code
- <http://translationproject.org/team/LANG_CODE.html> to form one of
- the URLs at http://translationproject.org/team/. Otherwise, replace
- the entire URL with your translation team's email address. */
- printf (_("Report %s translation bugs to "
- "<http://translationproject.org/team/>\n"),
- last_component (program_name));
- }
+ printf (_("For complete documentation, run: info coreutils '%s
invocation'\n"),
+ last_component (program_name));
}
#include "inttostr.h"
--
1.6.3.3
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