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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-01-22 15:26:00 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-01-22 15:26:38 -0800
commit80bc8651fd6b0a41be00ab4ee82e920287b15cbc (patch)
treea2ef53611275246a3460e91511550cea100f0494 /src/pr.c
parent132d0055158a8c1973897ef99c2c6459fc8e1e4f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-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.
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diff --git a/src/pr.c b/src/pr.c
index deb46dec3..6efd7a978 100644
--- a/src/pr.c
+++ b/src/pr.c
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
utilities, e.g. sort or cut. - Same as SunOS does.
- With multicolumn output
two conflicting POSIX requirements exist:
- First 'default n-separator is TAB', second `output text columns shall
- be of equal width'. Moreover POSIX specifies the number+separator a
+ First "default n-separator is TAB", second "output text columns shall
+ be of equal width". Moreover POSIX specifies the number+separator a
part of the column, together with '-COLUMN' and '-a -COLUMN'.
(With -m output the number shall occupy each line only once. Exactly
the same situation as single column output exists.)
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@
PAGE_WIDTH may occur.
The interference of the POSIX-compliant small letter options -w and -s:
- ('interference' means `setting a _separator_ with -s switches off the
+ ("interference" means "setting a _separator_ with -s switches off the
column structure and the default - not generally - page_width,
- acts on -w option')
+ acts on -w option")
options: text form / separator: equivalent new options:
-w l -s[x]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@
is always printed with single column output only. The
TAB-width varies with the TAB-position, e.g. with the
left margin specified by -o option.
- With multicolumn output priority is given to `equal width
- of output columns' (a POSIX specification). The TAB-width
+ With multicolumn output priority is given to "equal width
+ of output columns" (a POSIX specification). The TAB-width
is fixed to the value of the 1st column and does not
change with different values of left margin. That means a
fixed number of spaces is always printed in the place of