Please use single or double quotes in 'bzr help'
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
EXAMPLE
$ bzr help current-formats
....
See ``bzr help current-formats`` for the complete list of
currently supported formats. See ``bzr help other-formats`` for
descriptions of any available experimental and deprecated formats.
SUGGESTION
In regions outside of US, the use of backticks is quite unfamiliar. It is also not very convient to copy text with mouse drag event because the backtics could be mistakenly copied with it. The backtics cause trouble on shell command line.
Please consider changing the double backticks to plain single or double quotes in all help texts. An example:
See "bzr help current-formats" for the complete list of
currently supported formats. See "bzr help other-formats" for
descriptions of any available experimental and deprecated formats.
| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in bzr: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Triaged |
The reason we use back-ticks is because it is ReST format, so that we can do things like "generate HTML" from the strings.
It may be reasonable to have a formatting filter that turns ``foo`` => "foo"
I'll also mention that we have another explicit documentation discussion, that we should use double quotes (") for documentation, because bzr commit -m 'foo bar' doesn't work on Windows (cmd.exe doesn't consider single quote (') to be a quoting character passing the strings as a single parameter.)