Hi, On 2011-07-13 09:28:55 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: > Well I prefer not using abreviations in documentation (char -> > character, max -> maximum); of course, those are obvious, but I think > it's in general better to use plain words. As for line vs. newline, I > have no preference, I simply used the term from the first part of the > description (for the same reason, I used the singular form, as in > "newline count").
"line" would be incorrect if the last line doesn't end with a newline character. One may wonder whether this is really a line, but according to wc's -L option, it is: $ echo -n abc | wc -l -L 0 3 Since wc outputs 3 for the "the length of the longest line", then this means that "abc" (without a newline character) is a line. Thus the line count is 1 and the newline count is 0. Regards, -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org