Re: Regarding a possible bug..

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:47:24AM -0600, Mak Kolybabi wrote:
> On 2010-02-11 17:49, Fyodor wrote:
> > Yeah, I agree that its a bit confusing that -v and -d are so similar in
> > purpose yet take different syntaxes. We should probably allow each of them to
> > take any of the forms (e.g. allow -v3 or -vvv or -v -v -v).
> >
> > I've added an item for this in docs/TODO, but that won't magically make it
> > happen. So anyone who wants to write a patch is welcome and encouraged to do
> > so.
>
> Attached is a patch that enables all three styles (-ddd, -d -d -d, and -d3) for
> both -d and -v. The patch also removes the TODO list entry and updates the
> manpage.

Thank you Mak. I have applied your suggested changes, though I found a
way to make the code a bit more concise. For future reference, when
making changes to the man page you should edit the XML source file
refguide.xml, and you don't have to include TODO updates in patches.

David Fifield
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