[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Git repository, and manpages

[Jonathan Marsden]

Dima,

Thanks for all the info on Debian setup (and for the new LaunchPad team, 
too)!

Дмитрий Ледков wrote:

> I've started using Ubuntu in VM 3 years a go to have an *easy*
> installation of TexLive + Emacs + AucTex. Only later I discovered that
> it is linux and that it is awesome.

That's an interesting way to enter the Linux world.  A bit different 
from mine: I got the MCC distribution of Linux in 1992 (the whole distro 
fit onto two 720k floppies, and I ran it on a 16MHz 386SX in 2MB RAM (it 
might have been 4MB?), in Manila, Philippines) :)

>> BTW, Dima: I think you are xnox on Freenode, right?  We missed each
>> other in #sword yesterday by not very much... I answered your question
>> there about 30 minutes after you asked it!

> I've been there for a while and then I went to logout from my computer
> and I saw it kill the window, where I saw someone replied. I've
> restrated computer only to realise I kill IRC logs on shutdown. Sorry
> about that. And thanks for answering =D Do you keep the logs??? =D

Yes, I usually keep my IRC logs, on both my work (nick jmarsden|work) 
and home (nick jmarsden) desktop machines.  I use X-Chat on both, which 
makes logging very easy.  Here we go:

> 20090124 19:35:28 <xnox>        I'm writting man page for diatheke. And I'm a bit confused by the --help output
> 20090124 19:35:42 <xnox>        diatheke <-b module_name>
> 20090124 19:35:55 <xnox>        then the first paragraph of the description says
> 20090124 19:36:13 <xnox>        If <book> is "system" you may use .....
> 20090124 19:36:41 <xnox>        was it ment to be <-b book>?
> 20090124 19:36:56 <xnox>        or If <module_name> is ....
> 20090124 19:37:13 <xnox>        Just run diatheke without specifying any options and read it carefully
> 20090124 20:12:57 <jmarsden>    xnox: I noticed that earlier today.  Ttry If <module_name> is ...  in other words, diatheke -b system modulelist works :)
> 20090124 20:14:15 <jmarsden>    module names are usually books, but not always, hence the confusion.

You know, we could patch this, so the help is self-consistent.  It would 
be trivial... and we could feed the patch back upstream, of course.  Just

--- diatheke.orig/diatheke.cpp   2008-05-03 20:52:06.000000000 -0700
+++ diatheke/diatheke.cpp        2009-01-26 17:49:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         fprintf (stderr, "[-e output_encoding] [-t script] [-v 
variant#(-1=all|0|1)]\n");
         fprintf (stderr, "[-l locale] <-k query_key>\n");
         fprintf (stderr, "\n");
-       fprintf (stderr, "If <book> is \"system\" you may use these 
system keys: \"modulelist\",\n");
+       fprintf (stderr, "If <module_name> is \"system\" you may use 
these system keys: \"modulelist\",\n");
         fprintf (stderr, "\"modulelistnames\", and \"localelist\".");
         fprintf (stderr, "\n");
         fprintf (stderr, "Valid search_type values are: regex, 
multiword, and phrase(def).\n");

will fix it.

Jonathan