[PATCH xscope] Improve help and manpage.

Walter Harms wharms at bfs.de
Tue May 8 17:00:58 UTC 2018



> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> hat am 6. Mai 2018 um 04:35
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> On 07/ 8/13 05:40 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> > Add some details on the verbosity and options -T and -A.
> > These two options are not very clear to me.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr>
> > ---
> >  man/xscope.man |   89
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >  scope.c        |   33 ++++++++++++---------
> >  2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> Sorry for letting this get lost in our massive backlog, but I've finally
> gotten this pushed to git master:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xscope/commit/?id=51c3ab198e6fa440961d02f6af13b1d73d698101
> 
> I've also pushed a followup to fix up the NAS protocol options (-A, -n, -a),
> though I'm not sure anyone still uses that protocol:
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xscope/commit/?id=f7af80a0ad7807e35f426a2377d7312b415c9d68
> 
> Even after digging through the code, I can't explain why the -T option exists
> - it just seems to add 0x20 to every character code before printing strings.
> Maybe someone else can figure that out.
> 

mybe this from wikipedia can help:

"In typography, letter-spacing, usually called tracking by typographers, 
refers to a consistent degree of increase (or sometimes decrease) of space 
between letters to affect density in a line or block of text."

T= tracking

most likely that was intended for printing.

re,
 wh

> Thanks for the patch!
> 
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