Pádraig Brady writes:
> Thanks for all the input.
> I've now pushed the following to address this:
>
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f60a3981c
>
> Notes:
> - Brevity in --help and man pages is a feature
> - I kept the existing NOTE: style in --help to avoid a se
On 10/22/21 16:21, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Thanks for all the input.
> I've now pushed the following to address this:
>
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f60a3981c
>
> Notes:
> - Brevity in --help and man pages is a feature
> - I kept the existing NOTE: style in -
On 21/10/2021 21:54, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 10/21/21 15:14, Florent Flament wrote:
Pádraig Brady writes:
+NOTE: printf(1) is a preferred alternative, with more standard option
handling.\
I believe that it misses the point. It is still not clear that the echo
command doesn't behave as o
Bernhard Voelker writes:
> On 10/21/21 15:14, Florent Flament wrote:
>> NOTE: printf(1) is a preferred alternative, which doesn't share echo's
>> inability to handle edge cases.
>
> I'm not sure that just mentioning "edge cases" will remind people either
> that they are falling into such particula