On 02/08/2013 04:07 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > > On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >>> "), _("\ >>> -X, --xyz some text\n\ >>> "), _("\ >>> -Y another option with a longer\n\ >>> description message\n\ >>> "), _("\ >> >> Hmmm... To me these intervening lines with '"), _("\' look >> distracting.
It's worth seeing how coreutils does this, for comparison: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c#n4714 > > Admitted, but the point was a nice alignment of the description > column for options with a wrapped line. That would be harder > with such an approach: > >> HTL (" -X, --xyz some text\n\"); >> HTL (" -Y another option with a longer\n\ >> description message\n\"); No, just use C string concatenation to get alignment: HTL (" -X, --xyz some text\n"); HTL (" -Y another option with a longer\n" " description message\n"); -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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