Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:27:22 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/grep/doc grep.1 Message-ID: <19991112072722.G63337@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <6216.942392728@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <19991111235932.A62263@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <6216.942392728@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:45:28AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> By the way, I thought about the argument that the use of mixed case
> forces the reader to verify the case of the actual command. Since we
> always use the correct case in the synopsis,
The new grep manpage only has `grep' in the SYNOPSIS section. Only in
the NAME section does it spell them correctly.
BUT the problem came in when I did ``man grep'', searched for "-a" to see
what it now meant, and started reading the manpage at that point. With
all the gratiuitous changes many of the GNU programs have started doing,
I thought, oh shit, *now* they want everybody to name it `Zgrep' rather
than `zgrep'. I could have gone w/o the rise.
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com)
P.S. The GCC people are now trying to shove
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/TARGET/VERSION/{specs,cc1,include} down my throat. (yes
that's /usr/lib you see -- they want us to do this for the native
compiler)
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