From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:24:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83608b6j3u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180107231238.76897-1-phst@google.com> <439239ad-5191-84a6-4c07-b34536ebd437@cs.ucla.edu> <245f0400-3234-3623-1085-d8be74c5bd04@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515518598 9508 195.159.176.226 (9 Jan 2018 17:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 18:23:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1eYxcH-00026Y-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:23:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYxeG-0003Gn-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYxdg-0003Gg-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:24:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYxdd-0008Cg-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYxdd-0008Ca-Cr; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1282 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eYxdW-0003D6-BN; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:24:30 -0500 In-reply-to: <245f0400-3234-3623-1085-d8be74c5bd04@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:30:59 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221763 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:30:59 -0800 > Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message "%s" (cos 0))' > > far more often than I see one like this: > > emacs -Q --batch --eval='(message "%s" (cos 0))' > > Although the latter form also works, I don't see any reason to recommend it to > the former; quite the contrary, as the former is easier to type. The latter works in more use cases than the former, see bug#24949. So recommending it will trip fewer newbies.