Alexander Kornienko 2e24e19cac Better output for long help strings for command-line options.
Summary:
This patch allows using \n inside long help strings for command-line
options, so that all lines are equally indented. This is not a perfect solution,
as we don't (and probably don't want to) know about terminal width, but it
allows to format long help strings somehow readable without manually padding
them with spaces. A motivating example is -help output from clang-format (source
code in tools/clang-format/ClangFormat.cpp, see cl options offset, length,
style, and dump-config).

Reviewers: atrick, alexfh

Reviewed By: alexfh

CC: llvm-commits, rafael

Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D779

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@181608 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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LLVM Documentation
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LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
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    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx
    $BROWSER _build/html/index.html

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If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
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markup syntax.

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===============

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    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx man
    man -l _build/man/FileCheck.1

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These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
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