address@hidden: help2man and indented help text]

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Bah, screwed up in writting the email addy to the help2man bug mailing
list.

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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:09:07 +0100
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Subject: help2man and indented help text

Hi,

help2man produces spurious blank newlines if you indented the --help
text like this:

      --sort=WORD            extension -X, none -U, size -S, time -t,
                               version -v
                             status -c, time -t, atime -u, access -u, use -u

The output that help2man produces ends up looking like this:

       --sort=WORD
              extension -X, none -U, size -S, time -t, version -v

              status -c, time -t, atime -u, access -u, use -u

Or if you have,

      --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir
                             follow each command line symbolic link
                               that points to a directory

then you get

       --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir
              follow each command line symbolic link

              that points to a directory


Indenting the --help string in this was is very useful, since it makes
it easier to read.  Could someone take a look at this?

All this was produced using Coreutils 5.2.1.

Thanks.


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