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[Bug-wget] Wget 1.15 --help indentation quirks


From: Steven M. Schweda
Subject: [Bug-wget] Wget 1.15 --help indentation quirks
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:17:58 -0600 (CST)

   While poking at Wget 1.15 on VMS, I noticed some indentation quirks
in the --help output (while converting it to a VMS HELP source file),
generally related to --long_options (src/main.c):

Typical alignment:
  -S,  --server-response         print server response.
       --spider                  don't download anything.

Too far left?:

  --backups=N   before writing file X, rotate up to N backup files.

  --no-use-server-timestamps     don't set the local file's timestamp by
                                 the one on the server.

  --trust-server-names             use the name specified by the redirection
                                   url last component.


"--backups=N" may fit into 80 columns:

       --backups=N          before writing file X, rotate up to N backup files.

"--no-use-server-timestamps" is too wide to fit easily where it belongs,
but that's not my fault.  I'd align the hyphens, and move (only) this
one explanation a couple of units to the right:

       --no-use-server-timestamps  don't set the local file's timestamp by
                                   the one on the server.

   I haven't yet tried it on a VAX, but with only a little fooling
around in the VMS-specific stuff, a build worked on Alpha (so IA64 is
likely, too).  One quick FTP fetch also worked, so I'm confident that
it's not completely broken.  (What could go wrong?)

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