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Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Jun 9 10:39:36 PDT 2006


On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Vincent Danen wrote:

> * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-06-09 01:09:28 -0700]:
>
>>> A new apt-get.8 is attached.  The rest are ok?
>>
>> That looks ok, now just convert the rest to this style :) One minor thing
>> though - I wonder does it make sense to have those []'s around command
>> arguments in bold either?
>
> Oh come on... don't nitpick... =)  Besides, it looks better visually (it
> adds some "reverse highlighting" to the user-input stuff (ie. "pkg(s)").

The point is not so much to nitpick, it's more about following tradition I 
suppose. Typically the brackets and such are not bolded but the command / 
option is, and the user input part is underlined.

> The rest need to be done the same way?  Hmm... will have to check
> that... I thought that apt-get.8 was the exception.

All the other commands have similar internal commands as well, I don't see 
why apt-get would be exceptional in any way.

> I'll try to look at that and finish them today.

Excellent. Let's get the first update in, then we can start nitpicking for 
real ;)

 	- Panu -



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