From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] doc: lei q: split =item aliases onto separate lines
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:39:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8dxg97w.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428045107.9699-3-e@80x24.org>
Eric Wong writes:
> It makes L</--augment> look nicer without resorting to
> L<--augment|/-a, --augment> and similarly verbose nastiness.
>
> Having each option as a separate =item (with a blank line in
> between each =item) seems to be the preferred style used within
> Perl core documentation (I used perlrun.pod as an example),
> so we'll follow Perl core style, here.
Okay, thanks providing a rationale for using separate lines. I went
with the single line style based on some combination of a subjective
visual preference and looking at other manpages (presumably git's).
> This needs to be done for other manpages, at some point...
I should be able to get to another round of lei doc updates this
weekend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-29 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-28 4:51 [PATCH 0/3] doc: lei updates around lei-q Eric Wong
2021-04-28 4:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: lei: use /tmp for search results pathnames Eric Wong
2021-04-28 4:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc: lei q: split =item aliases onto separate lines Eric Wong
2021-04-29 1:39 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2021-04-29 1:57 ` Eric Wong
2021-04-28 4:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc: lei q: split --output and --format, note "text" Eric Wong
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