Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Makefile: wrap SPHINXDIRS help text

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 12/26/25 12:56 AM, mustafaelrasheid@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mustafa Elrasheid <mustafaelrasheid@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When using `make help`, SPHINXDIR doesn't wrap around 80 characters,
> causing text to overflow or wrap in incorrect ways,
> which then makes the text difficult to read
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mustafa Elrasheid <mustafaelrasheid@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>   - Added '-s' in fmt to prevent word segmenting at the end of lines.
>   - Reduced width in `fmt -w` to account for the added indentation of
>     `sed`
> 
>  Documentation/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> index e96ac6dcac4f..e260df866f5e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ dochelp:
>  	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
>  	@echo
>  	@echo  '  make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2'
> -	@echo  '  top level values for SPHINXDIRS are: $(_SPHINXDIRS)'
> +	@echo  '  top level values for SPHINXDIRS are: $(_SPHINXDIRS)' | fmt -s -w 72 | sed '1!s/^/    /'
>  	@echo  '  you may also use a subdirectory like SPHINXDIRS=userspace-api/media,'
>  	@echo  '  provided that there is an index.rst file at the subdirectory.'
>  	@echo

OK, that works.
I think that the output can be made a little nicer to look at like this:

@@ -98,7 +101,8 @@ dochelp:
 	@echo  '  cleandocs       - clean all generated files'
 	@echo
 	@echo  '  make SPHINXDIRS="s1 s2" [target] Generate only docs of folder s1, s2'
-	@echo  '  top level values for SPHINXDIRS are: $(_SPHINXDIRS)'
+	@echo  '  top level values for SPHINXDIRS are:'
+	@echo  '$(_SPHINXDIRS)' | fmt -s -w 75 -g 75 | sed 's/^/    /'
 	@echo  '  you may also use a subdirectory like SPHINXDIRS=userspace-api/media,'
 	@echo  '  provided that there is an index.rst file at the subdirectory.'
 	@echo


although I would rather not assume a terminal width of 80.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy