From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20216 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2008 15:52:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 18913 invoked by uid 48); 1 Mar 2008 15:51:29 -0000 Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:52:00 -0000 From: "tromey at redhat dot com" To: frysk-bugzilla@sourceware.org Message-ID: <20080301155128.5810.tromey@redhat.com> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug general/5810] New: inconsistent help output X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo Mailing-List: contact frysk-bugzilla-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-bugzilla-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00355.txt.bz2 List-Id: I looked through the 'help' output a bit. With plain 'help', some descriptions start with a capital letter, but some do not. Some end with a period, but some do not. Some have extremely minimal short descriptions, like: "load - load". Looking at specific commands' help, there are more inconsistencies. load says: [ -sysroot Path ] display: display expr where: [ {num-levels ] disassemble: disassemble [startAddress] [--] [OPTIONS]|| disassemble [--] [-OPTIONS] -option ...; (disassemble is inconsistent with itself) That is -- "metasyntactic variables" are written in a number of different ways. It would be better to just have one way. Sometimes the "short help" prints after the description (quit, one other I can't find right now), but mostly before. Finally, some descriptions use two spaces after a sentence, but some use one. -- Summary: inconsistent help output Product: frysk Version: unspecified Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: general AssignedTo: frysk-bugzilla at sourceware dot org ReportedBy: tromey at redhat dot com http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5810 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.