Re: [Bug-gnulib] quotearg styles (documentation patch for coreutils)

2004-02-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > How about this patch instead? It says that the strings are typically > file names, and then uses "strings" instead of "names" (and also > reflects most of Bruno's other comments too). Thanks. I've applied that one. __

Re: [Bug-gnulib] quotearg styles (documentation patch for coreutils)

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe it'd be better to let the quotearg.h documentation > diverge a little from that of ls --quoting-style. Yes, but in that case I'd like them to diverge as little as possible, and I think the user documentation is more important to get "right" so I'd

Re: [Bug-gnulib] quotearg styles (documentation patch for coreutils)

2004-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the proposed patch to the coreutils documentation, which > reflects your other comments: > > 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * doc/coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): > Improve wording for --quoting-style documenta

Re: [Bug-gnulib] quotearg styles (documentation patch for coreutils)

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you improve the wording here and in coreutils simultaneously? OK, but let's start with coreutils since it's the user documentation and is more visible. Once this is done the gnulib patch should be straightforward. > > in the default C locale > > B