On 14/05/18 06:39, [email protected] wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I would like to give you a tiny and somewhat meticulous suggestion for > improvement for the nl man/help page. > (It is merely a typographical issue, if at all.) > The following applies to the help page but, the same also goes for the man > page. > > $ nl --help > ... > By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn. CC are > two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing > second character implies :. Type \\ for \. STYLE is one of: > > a number all lines > t number only nonempty lines > n number no lines > pBRE number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular > > FORMAT is one of: > > ln left justified, no leading zeros > ... > > For better readability it would be better for the eye to change it to the > following: > > $ nl --help > ... > By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn. > > CC are two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing > second character implies :. Type \\ for \. > > STYLE is one of: > > a number all lines > t number only nonempty lines > n number no lines > pBRE number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular > > FORMAT is one of: > > ln left justified, no leading zeros > ... > > Thanks! > > Kind regards, > > Jefgeni
Agreed that is wasn't ideally formatted. I pushed fixes along those lines at: https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5d158a thanks, Pádraig
