bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, at 20:14, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benno Schulenberg writes: > > Or does it just mean that when ONLRET is set that the receiving > > end will do also a CR when a LF is received? The tty doesn't do > > any conversion, it just has to be aware that

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, at 13:26, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > [...] If ONLRET is set, the NL character is assumed to do the > carriage-return function; [...] Otherwise, the NL character is > assumed to do just

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

Hi, Attached three patches (sorry, I can't do 'git send-email' from here) make some small changes to error messages and option descriptions. The first patch puts the words "carriage return" and "newline" a bit wider apart, instead of gluing them together with a hyphen -- this had confused me up

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

On 27/09/15 08:58, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > @item onlcr > @opindex onlcr > @cindex newline, translating to crlf > -Translate newline to carriage return-newline. Non-POSIX@. May be > +Translate newline to carriage return + newline. Non-POSIX@. May be > negated. Better thanks. > @item

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

Pádraig Brady writes: > While this new wording doesn't overlaps with other descriptions, > the original wording comes from POSIX. I don't know that the distinction > here is TBH. Perhaps onlret relates to input while onlcr relates to output?

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

Pádraig Brady writes: > On 27/09/15 08:58, Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> @item onlcr >> @opindex onlcr >> @cindex newline, translating to crlf >> -Translate newline to carriage return-newline. Non-POSIX@. May be >> +Translate newline to carriage return + newline.