how about a standard for online docs as well?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Mar 26 04:14:40 UTC 2006


On Saturday 25 March 2006 7:56 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Care to suggest one, and possibly fixup the existing ones (one at a
> > time, preferably)?
>
>   i think the simplest format is to just specify "[OPTIONS]" in the
> command synopsis, and list the options below.  for example:

Without CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE, the usage message is just the first 
line.  Your suggestion means the short version would be completely useless.

Try going the other way please.

Rob
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