Re: psql help message contains excessive indentations

On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 13:06:35 +0200
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> On 2023-Sep-07, Yugo NAGATA wrote:
>
> > Yes. So, I mean how about fixing \watch description as the attached patch.
>
> > diff --git a/src/bin/psql/help.c b/src/bin/psql/help.c
> > index 38c165a627..12280c0e54 100644
> > --- a/src/bin/psql/help.c
> > +++ b/src/bin/psql/help.c
> > @@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ slashUsage(unsigned short int pager)
> > HELP0(" \\gset [PREFIX] execute query and store result in psql variables\n");
> > HELP0(" \\gx [(OPTIONS)] [FILE] as \\g, but forces expanded output mode\n");
> > HELP0(" \\q quit psql\n");
> > - HELP0(" \\watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]\n");
> > - HELP0(" execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times\n");
> > - HELP0(" stop if less than MIN rows are returned\n");
> > + HELP0(" \\watch [[i=]SEC] [c=N] [m=MIN]\n"
> > + " execute query every SEC seconds, up to N times\n"
> > + " stop if less than MIN rows are returned\n");
>
> Yeah, this looks right to me -- the whole help entry as a single
> translatable unit, instead of three separately translatable lines.

Thank you for your explanation. I understood it. I thought of just
imitating other places, and I didn't know each is a single translatable
unit.

Regards,
Yugo Nagata

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