On 29/10/2020 21:25, Roland Illig wrote:
On 28.10.2020 21:55, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
We have so many utils that it may be worth writing some utility functions
to automatically do the alignment. Usually, that part of the usage output
has 3 columns:
a) the short option (if any),
b) the long
On 28.10.2020 21:55, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
We have so many utils that it may be worth writing some utility functions
to automatically do the alignment. Usually, that part of the usage output
has 3 columns:
a) the short option (if any),
b) the long option (if any),
c) the description (maybe
On 28/10/2020 20:55, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 10/27/20 3:15 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 27/10/2020 02:19, Paul Eggert wrote:
One way to attack the problem is (1) use only one-liners for option help, and
(2) not worry about indentation so much (either in English or in German) as the
excess
On 27/10/2020 02:19, Paul Eggert wrote:
One way to attack the problem is (1) use only one-liners for option help, and
(2) not worry about indentation so much (either in English or in German) as the
excess indenting doesn't help readability enough to justify the translation
hassle. To do that, I
On 27/10/2020 00:03, Roland Illig wrote:
Hi,
> Some of the programs add an empty line before the --help and --version
lines, which
looks ok. Several others do not add a line, which looks wrong. This
should be consistent among all coreutils.
I agree we should make things as consistent as
One way to attack the problem is (1) use only one-liners for option help, and
(2) not worry about indentation so much (either in English or in German) as the
excess indenting doesn't help readability enough to justify the translation
hassle. To do that, I propose changes like the attached for
Hi,
As the German translator of coreutils, I fixed the indentation of the
--help output today, for coreutils 8.31.90. While doing that, I noticed
that the option "-z, --zero-terminated" is used by several programs that
have different "native" indentation widths. Therefore their --help
output
