From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: trivial@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [trivial 2.5] kconfig language doc r.e. --help--
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:25:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030625112534.GB9295@cancer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306251246240.11817-100000@serv>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:48:43PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Where did you find the '--help--' version? I'm actually suprised that
> works. The official alternative is only '---help---'.
I'd *swear* i saw '--help--' yesterday. I'd swear until i was a
light shade of blue....
Oh well, patch that only references "---help---" below.
--- linux-2.5.73/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt 2003-06-15 17:47:18.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.5.73-stew1/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt 2003-06-25 21:24:28.000000000 +1000
@@ -105,10 +105,13 @@
or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second
symbol.
-- help text: "help"
+- help text: "help" or "---help---"
This defines a help text. The end of the help text is determined by
the indentation level, this means it ends at the first line which has
a smaller indentation than the first line of the help text.
+ "---help---" and "help" do not differ in behaviour, "---help---" is
+ used to help visually seperate configuration logic from help within
+ the file as an aid to developers.
Menu dependencies
--
Stewart Smith
Vice President, Linux Australia
http://www.linux.org.au (personal: http://www.flamingspork.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 8:43 Stewart Smith
2003-06-25 10:48 ` Roman Zippel
2003-06-25 11:25 ` Stewart Smith [this message]
2003-06-25 12:44 ` Roman Zippel
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