From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:36:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mv1m5qrl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a79ab0b-9257-6653-f2e3-baed797346cf@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:21:49 -0800)
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 3:36 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
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 [this message]
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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