From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24034 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2007 20:43:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 24022 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2007 20:43:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:43:11 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HGLXR-0000zG-HT; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:43:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:25:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Special characters in doc strings of GDB commands Message-ID: <20070211204309.GA3751@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20070210204729.GA29601@nevyn.them.org> <20070211180855.GA24482@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00079.txt.bz2 On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:17:25PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Right. Another possibility would be to enclose the short description > part in some control sequence, which will be stripped by the commands > that print the doc strings. For example, like makeinfo uses ^[..^] > for similar purposes. I guess that's better for translation purposes (tell translators to leave those untranslated)? It still seems problematic, e.g. if the natural phrasing of the long descripton doesn't have the short description as a substring. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery