From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24949: Command-line argument parsing: named daemons Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:44:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <05vavopehh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8337isgkkh.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515400998 4459 195.159.176.226 (8 Jan 2018 08:43:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:43:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: 24949@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 08 09:43:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT1R-0000Tr-Hn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:43:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT3P-0007mx-HZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT3K-0007mr-A8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT3G-0002Gh-Cw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT3G-0002GH-7G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT3F-0006CO-Qy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:45:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas Schwab Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:45:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24949 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24949-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24949.151540106723775 (code B ref 24949); Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:45:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24949) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Jan 2018 08:44:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40156 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT2h-0006BP-Lo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49515) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYT2f-0006BG-Jd for 24949@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:44:26 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737FBACBD; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:44:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: "DARK SHADOWS" is on!! Hey, I think the VAMPIRE forgot his UMBRELLA!! In-Reply-To: (Philipp Stephani's message of "Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:44:26 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141894 Archived-At: On Jan 07 2018, Philipp Stephani wrote: > I've just re-checked this. The manual states: "When a long option takes an > argument, you can use either a space or an equal sign to separate the > option name and the argument. Thus, you can write either > @samp{--display sugar-bombs:0.0} or @samp{--display=sugar-bombs:0.0}. " > > So it's even documented that both forms should work. That's only true for options with a non-optional argument. For optional arguments the equal sign is required, otherwise it doesn't know whether the argument belongs to the option. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."