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Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 |
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
The equal sign makes it clearer that what follows is an argument
for the preceding option. That is the advantage of it.
This makes no difference when you or I read a script, but it can help
people who are not experienced and not confident.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
- [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Philipp Stephani, 2018/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/07
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Richard Stallman, 2018/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/09
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Richard Copley, 2018/01/10
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Richard Stallman, 2018/01/11
- Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Philipp Stephani, 2018/01/17
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Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/07