Hi Stephane,

On Thu August 3 2006 4:27 pm, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:42:29AM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > Here's a patch to reformat the help/usage text for pfmon. The current
> > help text wraps a lot on a standard 80 column terminal window. These
> > changes should make it much easier to read.
>
> Is it wrapping because of excessive tabs or simply because the text is too
> long? I noticed your patch removes all the \t. Wouldn't it be better to
> simply shorten the text instead of removing the tabs replacing them with
> lots of white spaces?

The wrapping is due to the text being too long. I wrote it with the whitespace 
because it made it easier to verify the formatting within the code. If you'd 
like, I'll try to rewrite the patch today using \t's instead.

-- 
Kevin Corry
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