From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1eZ6fj-0006Or-5K@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <245f0400-3234-3623-1085-d8be74c5bd04@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:30:59 -0800)
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
The equal sign makes it clearer that what follows is an argument
for the preceding option. That is the advantage of it.
This makes no difference when you or I read a script, but it can help
people who are not experienced and not confident.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 3:03 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
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 [this message]
2018-01-08 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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