On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:20:30AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > Looks good from here (autoconf 2.13) with one minor complaint: I'm seeing > things like this from --help for long parameters: > > --enable-optional-hook-export example optional hook exporter > ^^^ > > Any way we can make it put an extra space in there like we used to have, > just to make it more readable? Just count how long the parameter string > length is and add an extra space to the help string if over some constant. > I'd do it but I'm no m4 guru. :)
My commit log: > > the help string. So noted. If anyone can figure out how to insert > > a line break like 2.50+ does when we go over the 26th column, I'd > > appreciate it. I tried and I'm way too tired to figure it out now. > > Adding this would greatly simplify two or three HELP_STRING uses. Yeah, what I'd really like to see happen is that we do a line break like what autoconf-2.5+ does when we exceeed the 26th column. Trust me, I spent over an hour trying to do it and I gave up. The easy way to make it look nice is to upgrade your version of autoconf or find a m4 guru. Because I'm sure not one. =) -- justin
