GNU bug report logs - #11933
ambiguous "stty --help" text

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Stummvoll <michael <at> stummi.org>
Cc: translation-team-de <at> lists.sourceforge.net, bruno <at> clisp.org, 11933 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11933: ambiguous "stty --help" text
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
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