Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paul Eggert (address@hidden) wrote:
> > Hmm - if you can suggest a good way to do this then I'd be happy to
> > write the examples in any reasonable way as long as they end up in 'man'
> > (as well as anywhere you want them).
> 
> The general way is to submit a patch, in "diff -u" format.  You'd
> need to patch doc/coreutils.texi and each source file (e.g., src/cp.c).

No I realise that; the issue is how to include examples in the help text
and let them be formatted appropriately for the man page (e.g.
highlighting the fixed text and user supplied text).

To be honest,  this is just too much hastle; I'll go and add
examples to some other packages where I just need to edit man pages.
There is no point in me jumping backwards through 5 hoops to do
something useful when all I really need to do is add them to the .x
files.

Dave
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