The resulting code ends up about the same length, but it is a little more self-explanatory. It now explicitly documents and checks the pre-condition that the incoming var starts with "man.", and drops the magic offset "4". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/help.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/help.c b/builtin/help.c index bd86253..04cb77d 100644 --- a/builtin/help.c +++ b/builtin/help.c @@ -237,21 +237,21 @@ static int add_man_viewer_info(const char *var, const char *value) static int add_man_viewer_info(const char *var, const char *value) { - const char *name = var + 4; - const char *subkey = strrchr(name, '.'); + const char *name, *subkey; + int namelen; - if (!subkey) + if (parse_config_key(var, "man", &name, &namelen, &subkey) < 0 || !name) return 0; - if (!strcmp(subkey, ".path")) { + if (!strcmp(subkey, "path")) { if (!value) return config_error_nonbool(var); - return add_man_viewer_path(name, subkey - name, value); + return add_man_viewer_path(name, namelen, value); } - if (!strcmp(subkey, ".cmd")) { + if (!strcmp(subkey, "cmd")) { if (!value) return config_error_nonbool(var); - return add_man_viewer_cmd(name, subkey - name, value); + return add_man_viewer_cmd(name, namelen, value); } return 0; -- 1.8.0.2.15.g815dc66 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html