Re: nl: line number decrement

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/10/2020 22:25, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 10/25/20 6:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>   > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>
>   > +  nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the 
> count.
>
> Cool enhancement.
>
> Maybe the Texinfo documentation should now clarify that both -i and -v allow
> arbitrary integer numbers, while -l and -w only take positive values.
> The --help output only talks about NUMBER which is probably fine for the
> terse man page and --help, but the Texinfo manual should document more
> details, shouldn't it?

Good point. Will update.

thanks