Re: option description - always give default value

2002-07-31 Thread Sven Guckes
* Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-31 15:14]: > If the default value given by the manual is not the same as > the real default value used by Mutt, it is very confusing. errr... that's self-evident, isn't it? > > the default value should *always* be documented. > What do you mean by "

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-07-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 18:26:40 +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-31 15:14]: > > > the default value should *always* be documented. > > What do you mean by "documented"? > > the manual to "muttrc" should show it. OK, so what happens if two Mutt binaries

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:15 31 Jul 2002, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 18:26:40 +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: | > * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-31 15:14]: | > > > the default value should *always* be documented. | > > What do you mean by "documented"? | > the manua

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 16:39:57 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 19:15 31 Jul 2002, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 18:26:40 +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > | > * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-31 15:14]: > | > > > the default value should *alway

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Palmer
Vincent Lefevre writes: > > The installed manual should be preprocessed during the build to have > > the correct defaults. > > But how can it have the correct defaults since there is only one > manual for several binaries? What several binaries? My system has only one /usr/local/bin/mutt. Came

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:14:27 -0700, Chris Palmer wrote: > What several binaries? My system has only one /usr/local/bin/mutt. There are systems with multiple binaries. Please read the thread. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Ac

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Palmer
Vincent Lefevre writes: > There are systems with multiple binaries. It's up to the sysadmin to keep the man pages in the same directory prefix as the binaries. /usr/foo/man/man1 should correspond to /usr/foo/bin, et c. -- Chris music is what numbers feel like San Francisco, CA

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:01:18 -0700, Chris Palmer wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > There are systems with multiple binaries. > > It's up to the sysadmin to keep the man pages in the same directory > prefix as the binaries. /usr/foo/man/man1 should correspond to > /usr/foo/bin, et c. We

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09:14 02 Aug 2002, Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Vincent Lefevre writes: | > > The installed manual should be preprocessed during the build to have | > > the correct defaults. | > But how can it have the correct defaults since there is only one | > manual for several binaries? Only

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-03 Thread Sven Guckes
* Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-04 01:02]: > On my systems I frequently have several mutts installed. > Each has its own manual page because each has its own install tree. > The /usr/local/bin/mutt is a symlink to the appropriate mutt > binary in its respective tree, and so is the m

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04:22 04 Aug 2002, Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | let's see - i need a different shell setup for each | of my mutt binaries, No, JUST ONE that peers at $0. If you're doing the shell wrapper thing. Just make links. | and for each of the systems. | now, if i follow this for every prog

Re: option description - always give default value

2002-08-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:22:03AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-04 01:02]: > > On my systems I frequently have several mutts installed. > > Each has its own manual page because each has its own install tree. > > The /usr/local/bin/mutt is a symlink to