Re: suggestion for improvement - nl man page

[Pádraig Brady]

On 14/05/18 06:39, address@hidden wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> I would like to give you a tiny and somewhat meticulous suggestion for 
> improvement for the nl man/help page.
> (It is merely a typographical issue, if at all.)
> The following applies to the help page but, the same also goes for the man 
> page.
> 
> $ nl --help
> ...
> By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn.  CC are
> two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing
> second character implies :.  Type \\ for \.  STYLE is one of:
> 
>   a         number all lines
>   t         number only nonempty lines
>   n         number no lines
>   pBRE      number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular
> 
> FORMAT is one of:
> 
>   ln    left justified, no leading zeros
> ...
> 
> For better readability it would be better for the eye to change it to the 
> following:
> 
> $ nl --help
> ...
> By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn.
> 
> CC are two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing
> second character implies :.  Type \\ for \.
> 
> STYLE is one of:
> 
>   a         number all lines
>   t         number only nonempty lines
>   n         number no lines
>   pBRE      number only lines that contain a match for the basic regular
> 
> FORMAT is one of:
> 
>   ln    left justified, no leading zeros
> ...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jefgeni

Agreed that is wasn't ideally formatted.
I pushed fixes along those lines at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5d158a

thanks,
Pádraig