Your message dated Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:05:11 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: /usr/X11R6/bin/xset: [xset] argument parsing errors should be printed after usage message - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #240944, regarding /usr/X11R6/bin/xset: [xset] argument parsing errors should be printed after usage message to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0-5 Severity: minor File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xset When I run, for example, 'xset blah', I see the following in my reasonably-sized terminal: [top of screen] force standby force suspend force off force on (also implicitly enables DPMS features) a timeout value of zero disables the mode To control font cache: fc [hi-mark [low-mark [balance]]] both mark values spcecified in KB balance value spcecified in percent (10 - 90) Show font cache statistics: fc s To set the font path: fp= path[,path...] To restore the default font path: fp default To have the server reread font databases: fp rehash To remove elements from font path: -fp path[,path...] fp- path[,path...] To prepend or append elements to font path: +fp path[,path...] fp+ path[,path...] To set LED states off or on: -led [1-32] led off led [1-32] led on To set mouse acceleration and threshold: m [acc_mult[/acc_div] [thr]] m default To set pixel colors: p pixel_value color_name To turn auto-repeat off or on: -r [keycode] r off r [keycode] r on r rate [delay [rate]] For screen-saver control: s [timeout [cycle]] s default s on s blank s noblank s off s expose s noexpose s activate s reset For status information: q $ Somewhere in the terminal's scrollback buffer is the line "xset: unknown option blah". Why should I have to scroll backwards to see it? My theory is that at one point xset had such a short usage string that the developers thought, "Gee, it would be convenient if we printed a usage message, for quick reference, whenever there was an argument parsing error." But now the usage string has grown so long that this argument is no longer valid. The usage message should be secondary to the actual error message, but instead it takes up so much space that it makes the error message harder to read. This is especially tiresome when one is trying to specify a complicated command line, and must keep scrolling up past the usage message to see what went wrong. I can think of two solutions. My preferred solution would be to modify xset to recognize '-h' and '--help', and to only print the usage message when one of these is specified on the command line (the same behavior, as, for instance, gcc). (A shorter version of the usage message could be printed when there is an error, although I would be happiest if nothing were printed but the error message.) Another possibility would be to modify xset to print the error message after the usage message, rather than before, so that the user doesn't have to scroll backwards to see the error message. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.2-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 4:3.3.3-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.2.1-16 Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.2.1-14 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxaw7 4.2.1-16 X Athena widget set library ii libxcursor1 1.0.2-4 X Cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-5 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Input extension li ii libxmu6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxmuu1 4.3.0-5 lightweight X Window System miscel ii libxpm4 4.3.0-5 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0-5 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol-trapping ii libxtst6 4.3.0-5 X Window System event recording an ii libxv1 4.3.0-5 X Window System video extension li ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0-5 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0-5 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.3.0-6 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data 4.3.0-6 X Window System client data ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this problem, please feel free to re-open it.
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