From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:43:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439239ad-5191-84a6-4c07-b34536ebd437@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180107231238.76897-1-phst@google.com>
Philipp Stephani wrote:
> * doc/man/emacs.1.in: Specify equals sign for long options, as
> recommended in the manual.
Why are they recommended? They are so often omitted that at this point any such
recommendation is somewhat pointless.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-07 23:12 [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page Philipp Stephani
2018-01-08 0:43 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-01-09 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-09 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2018-01-09 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-09 22:21 ` Paul Eggert
2018-01-10 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 19:26 ` Richard Copley
2018-01-11 19:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-17 22:33 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-01-10 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-01-08 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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