bug#21356: BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes' give error

[Pádraig Brady]

On 27/08/15 20:43, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-08-27 16:18:51 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
> [...]
>>> info page:
> [...]
>>> It's easy to miss that it's not `-d[FROM]` here. A note along
>>> these lines could help:
>>>
>>> "Note that the FROM value can only be specified with the long
>>> option from."
>>
>> Done at:
>> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=da5505dd7f
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> I can't think of any suitably terse improvements for the man page.
> [...]
> 
> Maybe something like:
> 
>   -d                          use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
>                               (starting at 0)
>   --numeric-suffixes[=FROM]   same as above but allows changing the
>                               starting value.
> 
> As in effect, they are different options.
> 

I'll apply the attached later.

thanks,
Pádraig.

short-optional-param.patch
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