Subject: bug#11933: ambiguous "stty --help" text

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:45:04 +0200

On 07/13/2012 04:22 PM, Michael Stummvoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for pushing this to bug-coreutils. I never thought about this
> for myself.
> 
>> +   [-]parodd     set odd parity (or even parity with '-')\n\
> 
> another (and maybe clearer) way could be:
> 
>         parodd      set odd parity
>        -parodd      set even parity
> 
> but I am not sure, cause it breaks with the notation of all the other
> options.
>
What about the following?

   [-]parodd     set parity (even parity with '-', odd parity otherwise)

Regards,
  Stefano