Bug 58682 - Redundancy in 'loadkeys -h' output
Summary: Redundancy in 'loadkeys -h' output
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: console-tools
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2002-01-22 22:57 UTC by Brent Fox
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-01-22 22:57:57 UTC
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Description Brent Fox 2002-01-22 22:57:52 UTC
Description of Problem:
The output of 'loadkeys -h' displays:

Usage: loadkeys [option...] [mapfile...]
valid options are:
  -c --clearcompose clear kernel compose table
  -d --default      load default keymap file
  -m --mktable      output a "defkeymap.c" to stdout
  -s --clearstrings clear kernel string table
  -q --quiet        be silent
  -v --verbose      report the changes
  -v --verbose      report more changes
  -h --help         display this help text and exit
  -V --version      display version information and exit

As you can see, there are two lines for "-v".  One of the should be removed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
console-tools-19990829-36


How Reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-22 23:15:52 UTC
No, this is just what it says, try for yourself:

loadkeys -v de-latin1        <-- is rather verbose
loadkeys -v -v de-latin1     <-- is VERY verbose


Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-01-23 15:25:40 UTC
I see.  I would expect it to say something like:

-v --verbose      report the changes
-vv --verbose      report more changes

The way it's currently worded, it's not necessarily clear to the user that you
would need two "v's" to go into very verbose mode.  I think it's a little weird
to do 'loadkeys -v -v de-latin1' instead of 'loadkeys -vv de-latin1'.


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