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

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/11 4:54 PM, Roger wrote: > Can see POSIX compatibility is likely an issue here. How so? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/11 6:37 PM, rogerx@gmail.com wrote: > > 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,

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

2011-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/12/11 1:58 AM, Roger wrote: > 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.

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