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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:21:49 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
On 01/09/2018 09:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
The latter works in more use cases than the former, see bug#24949. So recommending it will trip fewer newbies.
That is true only for options with an optional argument, as Bug#24949#30 mentions. Most options are not that way, and we needn't recommend the spurious "=" for them. On the contrary, it's better to use "=" only in examples of options with an optional argument, as a way to help remind users that these options are unusual.
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