tag 395430 patch fixed-upstream thanks Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 13/07/11 09:07, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2011-07-13 09:28:55 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: > >> Well I prefer not using abreviations in documentation (char -> > >> character, max -> maximum); of course, those are obvious, but I think > >> it's in general better to use plain words. As for line vs. newline, I > >> have no preference, I simply used the term from the first part of the > >> description (for the same reason, I used the singular form, as in > >> "newline count"). > > > > "line" would be incorrect if the last line doesn't end with a newline > > character. One may wonder whether this is really a line, but according > > to wc's -L option, it is: > > > > $ echo -n abc | wc -l -L > > 0 3 > > > > Since wc outputs 3 for the "the length of the longest line", then > > this means that "abc" (without a newline character) is a line. Thus > > the line count is 1 and the newline count is 0. > > OK thanks guys. > I push that verbatim (well I added a '.')
Thanks! I'm just writing the commit id below to make it easier to find out when to close the bug in Debian. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=2c558fd0d36162559574b7696fe485913cdd9066 -- Benoît Knecht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
