how about a standard for online docs as well?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> 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.

ah, you're right, sorry.

rday