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Re: coreutils.texi: Drop leading blanks.


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: coreutils.texi: Drop leading blanks.
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:56:45 +0200

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> this patch removes a couple of ugly extra spaces from the info file
> (script to find them posted here:
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-06/msg00920.html>).

Thanks for spotting that!
And for the script pointer.

For reference, the offending info output looks like this:

  $ INFOPATH=. info -f coreutils.info join|grep -A1 'or more blanks'
     * fields in the input are separated by one or more blanks, with
       leading       blanks on the line ignored;

> 2008-06-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
>
>       * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Drop leading blanks.
>
> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
> index a626b45..aae8138 100644
> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
> @@ -5307,7 +5307,7 @@ The defaults are:
>  @itemize
>  @item the join field is the first field in each line;
>  @item fields in the input are separated by one or more blanks, with leading
> -      blanks on the line ignored;
> +blanks on the line ignored;

Oh, the irony...




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