Re: [PATCH] last: mention optional arguments in usage

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, at 21:59, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/13/2013 05:42 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Better use angular-brackets convention right away: "[<name>...]".
> 
> Correct. I just did it as in the man page, therefore that
> one should also be fixed.

No, man pages do not use angular brackets, they use instead
italics for arguments.

> However, I'm not that happy with it anyway, because <name> can
> either be a username or a terminal name, e.g. 'last root tty0',
> and '<name>' does not describe that too well.

Yes, I thought of that too, moments after sending the mail.  :)

> Any idea - besides falling back to the old '[<username>..] [tty..]'
> (which isn't too bad IMO)?

"<username>" and ".RI [ username ...]" would be fine.

Benno

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