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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