Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:21:49 -0800
> 
> 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.

Newbies or people who only rarely use these options would not know
which arguments are optional, so recommending to always use a '='
makes their muscle memory more future-proof.