Re: [PATCH, gas] Use command line consistently in gas doc

[Thomas Preudhomme <thomas dot preudhomme at foss dot arm dot com>]

I've looked into the sort of usage for "command line" in the existing doc in 
case it was used in a different way. The words "command line option" (or 
command-line argument) seems the most frequent usage. Most target use "command 
line option" but some target use "command-line option". as.texinfo use a mix of 
both.

I've looked at bfd and binutils documentation and again "command line" is the 
most common with few examples of "command-line". Should we take advantage of 
this patch to bring consistency to the whole of gas documentation then? What 
should the consistent use be? "command-line" or "command line"?

Best regards,

Thomas

On 20/02/18 10:43, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On 20/02/18 10:25, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> > On 20/02/18 09:48, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > c-aarch64.texi and c-arm.texi contain several occurrences of commandline
> > > instead of "command line" which the rest of gas documentation seems to
> > > have settled on. This patch changes these occurences for better
> > > consistency.
> > >
> > > ChangeLog entry is as follows:
> > >
> > > *** gas/ChangeLog ***
> > >
> > > 2018-02-19  Thomas Preud'homme  <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>
> > >
> > >          * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Replace uses of "commandline" by "command
> > > line".
> > >          * doc/c-arm.texi: Likewise.
> > >
> > > Committed as obvious.
> >
> > If I remember my English grammar correctly, since the cases you change
> > here all use "command line" to qualify a noun ("option") I think they
> > should be hyphenated, so "command-line option".
>
> I agree and my first attempt was changing it in this way but a grep for 
> command.line shows that "command line" is used all over the place and 
> command-line very seldomly. I went for consistency.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas