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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Lennard Hofmann <lennard.hofmann@web.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] column: Deprecate --table-empty-lines in favor of --keep-empty-lines
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:08:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921130844.zrulvqcc44ee6zxz@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200920130818.29756-2-lennard.hofmann@web.de>

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 03:08:18PM +0200, Lennard Hofmann wrote:
> +.IP "\fB\-L, \-\-keep\-empty\-lines\fP"
> +Preserve whitespace-only lines in the input. The default is ignore empty lines
> +at all. This option’s original name was \-\-table-empty-lines but is now
> +deprecated because it gives the false impression that the option only applies
> +to table mode.

Please update also usage() (--help output) where we do not need --table-empty-lines
anymore.

 Karel


-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-20 13:08 [PATCH 2/4] column: Call mbs_to_wcs("") only once Lennard Hofmann
2020-09-20 13:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] column: Deprecate --table-empty-lines in favor of --keep-empty-lines Lennard Hofmann
2020-09-21 13:08   ` Karel Zak [this message]
2020-09-20 13:08 ` [PATCH 4/4] tests: column --keep-empty-lines in cols mode Lennard Hofmann

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