On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:26:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I see
>
> Omitting the colon results in a test only for a parameter that
> is unset.
Ouch :-( I completely missed that. And the reason is that the man page
is too long to read sequentially. So I (and I guess most people)
instead search for particular strings. Even when I included the
colon, I failed to scroll up.
> What change would you suggest to improve the clarity?
So I suggest that it might be worth moving and modifying that sentence to
something like
" Omitting the colon, as in the forms ${parameter-word}, ${parameter=word}
and ${parameter?word}, results in a test..." ,
avoiding line breaks in the forms to ensure simple searches succeed.
No?
Thanks for the reply.
ael
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