Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2005 11:22:03 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] Kconfig: rename "---help---" to "help" in Kconfig files (first part) |
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:10:48AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch is the majority of a patch by Jesper Juhl. > > > > This patch renames all instances of "---help---" to simply "help" in all > > of the Kconfig files. > > > > The main reason for this patch (quoting Jesper) is: > > > > Consistency. out of ~4000 help entries in 134 Kconfig files, 747 of > > those entries use "---help---" as the keyword, the rest use just "help". > > So the users of "---help---" are clearly a minority and by renaming them > > we make things consistent. - I hate inconsistency. :-) > > This has nothing to do with consistency but with readability. > This was introduced to better separate the help in large menu entries. In > order to accept this patch, I would either like hear reasons, why this > isn't needed anymore or I'd like to see an alternative, more consistent > separator.
The separator used for the help is to indent help texts by two additional spaces.
IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even though only a minority of the entries was using "---help---" even before this patch.
> bye, Roman
cu Adrian
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