On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:37:04PM +0200, Anton Lindqvist wrote: > > Hi, > > Support for decrementing a variable using the '-=' operator with > > wsconsctl was added in r1.11 of wsconsctl.c. It never ended up being > > documented. One might deduce that '-=' works since '+=' does. > > However, I think adding documentation would be helpful. > > > > if it's decided this should be documented, i suggest we change the way > we're documenting this. adding a separate synopsis is silly - i see > you're just following what we do now though. > > i suggest removing the current += line from SYNSOPSIS and usage(), and > amending the (perfectly good) description of name=value to include -=. > > but first we need to know whether we want to document this or not...
That makes sense. Maybe this addition is sufficient enough then: Index: wsconsctl.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/wsconsctl/wsconsctl.8,v retrieving revision 1.23 diff -u -p -r1.23 wsconsctl.8 --- wsconsctl.8 4 Aug 2008 07:32:51 -0000 1.23 +++ wsconsctl.8 6 Apr 2017 06:20:42 -0000 @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ The value can be specified as either an symbol, or as a relative value, by using the .Ql += +or +.Ql -= symbol. See the .Sx EXAMPLES
