From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 Message-ID: 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: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515553350 12037 195.159.176.226 (10 Jan 2018 03:02:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 04:02:26 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 1eZ6en-0002mk-Fk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:02:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6gl-0003lo-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fp-0003lU-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fo-0000hz-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fj-0000cg-Hd; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fj-0006Or-5K; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -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:221771 Archived-At: [[[ 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.