Re: mutt/2323: feature of creating personal my_variables should be documented
The following reply was made to PR mutt/2323; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Re: mutt/2323: feature of creating personal my_variables should be
documented
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:12:30 +0200 (CEST)
On Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 22:35:02 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> manual.txt has a bad linebreak:
>| macro pager <PageDown> "\
>| <enter-command> set my_old_pager_stop=\$pager_stop pager_stop<Enter>\
>| <next-page>\
>| <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop ; unset
>my_old_pager_stop<En
>| ter>"
> I would propose to use my_pager_stop instead of my_old_pager_stop. --
> Seems clearer than to have another line continuation, especially with
> a prepended space to `unset'.
I'm not for $my_pager_stop: It does not carry so clearly the
old/save/backup meaning, that we are trying to demonstrate. And there is
no need for a space before unset (only the first space after
<enter-command> counts). So I would propose:
| <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop ;\
| unset my_old_pager_stop<Enter>"
...or longer better:
| <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop<Enter>\
| <enter-command> unset my_old_pager_stop<Enter>"
I'm biased towards the 1st. But when I try to imagine beeing a
first-time manual reader, the 2nd version is clearly the clearest. My
vote goes for the 1st^W 2nd choice of course.
Bye! Alain.