Re: help's blank lines have four spaces appended

2011-02-11 Thread Clark J. Wang
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/11/11 4:02 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Chet Ramey > > wrote: > > > > On 2/6/11 2:01 AM, jida...@jidanni.org > wrote: > > > Why add the fou

Re: help's blank lines have four spaces appended

2011-02-07 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/6/11 2:01 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Why add the four spaces? Because all lines are prefixed by four spaces to separate the text from the usage synopsis. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey,

Re: help's blank lines have four spaces appended

2011-02-07 Thread Davide Brini
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:01:24 +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Why add the four spaces? > $ help read|perl -nwle 's/ $/ \$/ && print' > $ > $ > $ > $ > $ > $ > $ > $ > $ > And? -- D.

help's blank lines have four spaces appended

2011-02-06 Thread jidanni
Why add the four spaces? $ help read|perl -nwle 's/ $/ \$/ && print' $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $