Re: Possibly hard-to-read message

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possibly hard-to-read message
Date: 2025-03-26 09:10:57
Message-ID: B078F4D4-ED92-4838-9660-BD8FD781CF2B@yesql.se
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> On 26 Mar 2025, at 04:52, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:

>> I came across the following help message added in commit 1a759c83278:
>>
>> + HELP0(" WATCH_INTERVAL\n"
>> + " number of seconds \\watch by default waits between executing the query buffer\n");
>>
>> It took me a little while to understand it.
>
> I'm on board with tweaking this.

How about the attached? We already have "(default: X)" in other places so this
aligns it better while simplifying the language.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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