[Tcsh] tcsh.man improvements style question

Kimmo Suominen kim at netbsd.org
Wed Dec 7 18:59:40 UTC 2022


On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 14:17, Luke Mewburn <luke at mewburn.net> wrote:
>      The basic word designators are, with columns for a leading ‘:’ and a
>      leading ‘!’ (for the abbreviated word designators - see below):
>
>            :0             The first (command) word.
>            :n             The nth argument.
>            :^      !^     The first argument, equivalent to ‘:1’.
>            :$      !$     The last argument.

I think this makes it much clearer for the readers — nice!

> I also added more clarity to the history variations (e.g, different ways of
> rewriting 'diff'), at the expense of a few more words and paragraphs,

I think the added negative space helps a lot.

Cheers,
+ Kimmo


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