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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-01-22 15:26:00 -0800 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2012-01-22 15:26:38 -0800 |
commit | 80bc8651fd6b0a41be00ab4ee82e920287b15cbc (patch) | |
tree | a2ef53611275246a3460e91511550cea100f0494 /doc/coreutils.texi | |
parent | 132d0055158a8c1973897ef99c2c6459fc8e1e4f (diff) | |
download | coreutils-80bc8651fd6b0a41be00ab4ee82e920287b15cbc.tar.xz |
maint: quote 'like this' or "like this", not `like this'
* doc/coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
coreutils now quotes 'like this'.
* man/help2man:
* src/timeout.c (usage): Quote 'like this' in diagnostics.
* HACKING, Makefile.am, NEWS, README, README-hacking, TODO, cfg.mk:
* doc/Makefile.am, doc/coreutils.texi, m4/jm-macros.m4:
* man/Makefile.am, man/help2man, src/Makefile.am, src/copy.h:
* src/extract-magic, src/ls.c, src/pinky.c, src/pr.c, src/sort.c:
* src/split.c, src/timeout.c, src/who.c, tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file:
* tests/pr/pr-tests: Quote 'like this' in commentary.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update due to changed old NEWS.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 2ada96247..0d3b7390d 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ other parts of that standard. @cindex symbolic link to directory, controlling traversal of The following options modify how @command{chown} and @command{chgrp} -@c FIXME: note that `du' has these options, too, but they have slightly +@c FIXME: note that 'du' has these options, too, but they have slightly @c different meaning. traverse a hierarchy when the @option{--recursive} (@option{-R}) option is also specified. @@ -2299,8 +2299,8 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @item +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] @itemx --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] -@c The two following @opindex lines evoke warnings because they contain `:' -@c The `info' spec does not permit that. If we use those lines, we end +@c The two following @opindex lines evoke warnings because they contain ':' +@c The 'info' spec does not permit that. If we use those lines, we end @c up with truncated index entries that don't work. @c @opindex +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] @c @opindex --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] @@ -4813,7 +4813,7 @@ contains lines unique to @var{file1}, column two contains lines unique to @var{file2}, and column three contains lines common to both files. Columns are separated by a single TAB character. @c FIXME: when there's an option to supply an alternative separator -@c string, append `by default' to the above sentence. +@c string, append "by default" to the above sentence. @opindex -1 @opindex -2 @@ -7401,7 +7401,7 @@ locale. @c Use @t instead of @samp to avoid duplicate quoting in some output styles. Quote strings as for C character string literals, except use surrounding quotation marks appropriate for the locale, and quote -@t{`like this'} instead of @t{"like +@t{'like this'} instead of @t{"like this"} in the default C locale. This looks nicer on many displays. @end table @@ -9557,7 +9557,7 @@ for a FIFO for a block special file @item c -@c Don't document the `u' option -- it's just a synonym for `c'. +@c Don't document the 'u' option -- it's just a synonym for 'c'. @c Do *any* versions of mknod still use it? @c @itemx u @opindex c @r{for character special file} |