On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:34:09AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 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.
Fixed (in .c and .1), Thanks Bernhard!
Karel
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