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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-10-25 17:03:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-10-25 17:03:27 +0200 |
| commit | 5a3a191d6b977a789206cad30c6411a2e583751e (patch) | |
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| parent | cdbfb8b4bfcde800640ff49db63920bb471919ae (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-5a3a191d6b977a789206cad30c6411a2e583751e.tar.gz | |
man*/: ffix (Place short options after long options)
This increases the chances that the paragraph will start in the same
line as the tag, wasting less vertical space.
The result seems visually better to me.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:11:03AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I also like your suggestion that if we really want to economize on
> space, we could present a command's long option form before its short,
> old-style Unix synonym, which will work well when the short option (plus
> its argument, if any) fits within the space for the paragraph tag. This
> might be a good idea for another reason; in GNU user space, the long
> option is the much more self-documenting form, and the single-character
> option name a kind of "expert mode" alternative. As a general rule,
> when presenting technical material, one should not lead with "expert
> mode".
Cc: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <branden@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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