Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread Roger
Question: Should I post this man file corrects here to the mailing list like this? As I read through the bash manpage, some sections are just horrible reading, but other sections seem really well structured. I've only fiddled with groff & much less .tex. Should I learn .tex or just post my corre

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread rogerx . oss
SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS : compgen First paragraph Run-on sentence/Repetitive statement (aka Too wordy) Original Text: When using the -F or -C options, the various shell variables set by the programmable completion facilities, while available, will not have useful values." Solution: strike "

Re: [patches] small improvements to the bashref.texi document

2011-09-11 Thread Roger
Hi Ben. I'm currently reading the Bash manual on my Kindle EBook reader, now half way through, and noticed the section "EXPANSION - Parameter Expansion" was a little vague. I couldn't understand the entire section until I happened across fetchmail's init script. Stuff I rarely seen or skipped ov

cppcheck warnings

2011-09-11 Thread Antoine Balestrat
Hello ! I've just run cppcheck (a static C/C++ code analyzer) against the latest bash code (freshly cloned from the git repo), and it points out some interesting issues. You can see the log here : http://pastebin.com/pZHQShJp Hope that was useful to you. Antoine.