On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 08:43:02PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > Rewrite "darcs help --match" output. > ------------------------------------ > > + showExample keyword example = > > + -- FIXME: this string is long, and its not a use case I've > > + -- *ever* seen in practice. Can we use something else, > > + -- like "darcs changes --matches"? --twb, 2008-12-28 > > + " darcs annotate --summary --match " > > + ++ "'" ++ keyword ++ " " ++ example ++ "'" > > I think so. I've had to slap on a small patch because haddock didn't > like the stars in your (non-haddock) comment. May be worth checking > if this is a haddock bug or not
I think it's a haddock bug, and it's one I've known about for a month or two. It has been sitting in my IN tray waiting for me to forward it on to the Haddock people >sheepish<. > Use indicative mood for primitive matcher help. > ----------------------------------------------- > I am not a linguist, and my Wikipedia lookup says "The indicative mood > or evidential mood is used for factual statements and positive belief", > e.g. "Jerry Seinfeld laughs on television" > > (which seems to be what we're doing now) > > Do you mean "imperative mood", or maybe something completely unrelated > to mood? I'll hold off on applying this in case you wanted to perfect > the comment (since you're taking the trouble to use a technical term > :-P) or maybe use simpler language Oopsie, imperative mood was what I had initially. I'll amend this one. > Haddock for primitiveMatchers (untested). > ----------------------------------------- > > primitiveMatchers :: Patchy p => [(String, String, [String], String -> > > MatchFun p)] > > + -- ^ keyword (operator), help description, list > > + -- of examples, matcher function > > Tested and works. In the future, I'd appreciate it if you'd just test > it and not send a patch with an 'untested' comment. Hehe, I was going to test it today, and if it worked edit the patch name and resend. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
