On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 10:27:34AM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 10:51:28AM +0100, Richard Ulmer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > after reading about using USB audio interfaces in
> > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html I looked up what -F and -f mean
> > in sndiod(8) but was briefly confused by the word 'last'. I commonly
> > understand 'last' as either 'previous' or 'at the end of the list' and
> > in this case the latter popped into my head first, which is the wrong
> > meaning in this case (if I'm not misunderstanding things).
> > 
> 
> hi.
> 
> i agree that "previous" is probably less ambiguous, so i'm ok with that
> change.
> 
> > Maybe the attached patch could prevent this confusion. I also changed
> > 'options' to singular, because it seems to me like it refers to the
> > (single) previous -f/-F option.
> > 
> 
> this one really depends on how the options are thought of, so either
> version is ok really. but with your proposed word change of "previous",
> singulAr does read better.
> 
> so, i'm fine with this diff and happy to commit. i'll let it sit a
> little in case anyone has an issue (i.e. we've both misunderstood the
> text!)
> 

thanks, both changes makes the man page better explain what the
code does

ok ratchov

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