Hi,

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl.
> 
> This patch renames all instances of "---help---" to simply "help" in all 
> of the Kconfig files.
> 
> The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is:
> 
> Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of 
> those entries use "---help---" as the keyword, the rest use just "help". 
> So the users of "---help---" are clearly a minority and by renaming them 
> we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-)

This has nothing to do with consistency but with readability.
This was introduced to better separate the help in large menu entries. In 
order to accept this patch, I would either like hear reasons, why this 
isn't needed anymore or I'd like to see an alternative, more consistent 
separator.

bye, Roman


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