tokens.cpp: use underscores in multi-word usage-string placeholders

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#321 tokens.cpp: use underscores in multi-word usage-string placeholders

Milestone: 3.x Stable

Status: closed-accepted

Owner: nobody

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Priority: 5

Updated: 6 days ago

Created: 2026-08-17

Creator: idleberg

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I have noticed some inconsistencies in makensis -CMDHELP. Instruction arguments usually use snake-case, but some arguments carry spaces. This makes the meaning ambigious and the CreateShortcut instruction is a good example

CreateShortcut [/NoWorkingDir] shortcut_name.lnk shortcut_target [parameters [icon_file [icon index [showmode [hotkey [comment]]]]]]

The icon_index is one argument, but it could easily mistaken as two. The attached patch clears those ambiguities.

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Anders - 6 days ago

status: open --> closed-accepted
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#321 tokens.cpp: use underscores in multi-word usage-string placeholders

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