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Re: [RFA 00/12] Small help text tweaks
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:39:49 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA 00/12] Small help text tweaks
- References: <20180430143731.30007-1-tom@tromey.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 08:37:19 -0600
>
> I've long understood the GNU style for "metasyntactic variables" --
> text that is a placeholder for some value -- to be to write them in
> all caps. For example, from "gdb --help":
>
> --core=COREFILE Analyze the core dump COREFILE.
>
> However, while researching for this post, I couldn't actually find
> this in the GNU coding standards -- I thought it was there, but the
> closest I could find was in the Emacs Lisp manual.
It's actually a simple side effect of how Texinfo formats @var{..} in
Info output. I think.