Re: [PATCH 2/3] deprecate "skip enable/etc.", doc string cleanup

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:01:37 -0700
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:42:04 -0700
> >> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> >>
> >> I certainly don't want to replicate all that text again
> >> and again (hence the macros).
> >
> > I understand, but put yourself in the position of someone who needs to
> > review a patch, and sees something like this:
> >
> >   +Display the status of skips.\n"
> >   +EDDI_USAGE_DOC_STRING_WITH_ALL ("skip", "info skip", "displayed")));
> >
> > How does that someone know if the resulting text is good English and
> > will produce a clear help text, or needs to be fixed in some way?
> 
> I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> I really hope the solution is to not expand all those macro
> invocations in place.

If I'm the only one who is bothered by such macro-izing of doc
strings, then just ignore me.