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List: dejagnu-bug
Subject: bug#47533: bug in dejagnu 1.6.3-rc2
From: Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2021-04-01 23:14:05
Message-ID: 606653BD.2070404 () gmail ! com
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Tom Tromey wrote:
>>> Usage: dejagnu <command> [--help|options...]
>>>
>
> Jacob> So how should that be written in GNU convention?
> Jacob> "dejagnu COMMAND [ --help | OPTIONS... ]"?
>
> Yeah.
>
Fixed in commit ea9642561c3f410dfb9f1362bc61fdf4e499b7f4 on the
dejagnu-1.6.3 branch.
>>> Third, the use of tabs in the output makes it a bit weird to quote.
>>>
>
> Jacob> This was done for convenience, including that the help texts are
> Jacob> actually read from the script files where they are "inset" using tabs.
> Jacob> (The line "# ##help" in the dejagnu launcher script introduces its own
> Jacob> help text.) What problems does this cause?
>
> None, it just looks unusual and then when I pasted it into the email, it
> indented very weirdly as well.
The "weird" indentation (unaffected by a small bit of left-edge text) is
intentional in the script files, since the help messages are embedded in
comments there. I will consider possibly expanding tabs on output in a
future version but this is not really a bug right now.
-- Jacob
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