There are also plenty of programs that use -v for version info. E.g.
zip, mutt, pine, troff, nroff, firefox, thunderbird, file, strings,
kcd ... also programs that use -V for verbose. E.g. vim.
In the world of software, programs are written without any contact
between various authors. It would help if as many programs as possible
standardize to known conventions, where I believe (-v, --verbose) is
more universally used. E.g. in n daily basis e.g. in ssh(1) and GNU
commands.
>From user perspective, unifying the command line options would be a good
thing, thus I propose moving forward with -v, --verbose and -V,
--version as they are also GNU standards.
Every detail, options and good manual pages are important for improving
the quality of software.
Thank you for bringing up the other programs, we hope to see those
programs standardize their command line options as well (Bug reports
under way).
Jari
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