docs/77024: typo/bad grammar in indent(1) manpage
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 3 11:20:28 UTC 2005
The following reply was made to PR docs/77024; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Adrian Filipi <adrian at ubergeeks.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/77024: typo/bad grammar in indent(1) manpage
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:12:09 +0200
% --- indent.1.orig Thu Feb 3 00:35:20 2005
% +++ indent.1 Thu Feb 3 00:36:37 2005
% @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@
% .Pp
% .Dl indent *.c
% .Pp
% -to the shell in an attempt to indent all the
% +To the shell this is an attempt to indent all the
% .Em C
% programs in a directory.
% -This is probably a bug, not a feature.
% +It is probably a bug, not a feature.
This shows too little context from the original manpage. Reading both the
preceding paragraph and the one that follows the displayed material we see:
% A common mistake that often causes grief is typing:
%
% indent *.c
%
% to the shell in an attempt to indent all the C programs in a
% directory. This is probably a bug, not a feature.
If you read both these paragraphs as one sentence, it probably
makes more sense. I agree it looks a bit confusing though.
We can probably rewrite this part as:
% A common mistake is to try to indent all the C programs in a
% directory by typing:
%
% indent *.c
%
% This is probably a bug, not a feature.
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