sur-behoffski wrote:
>> Blending in documentation about -h immediately made me curious.
Speaking off the cuff, without benefit of looking at the code or sufficient
experimenting with the behavior, I would expect that:
By default, if more than one file argument is named on the command line or is
On 2025-01-16 20:51, jack...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Clearly my previous paragraph fails the "keep word count parsimonious" mandate
for man pages.
Yup.
Paul Eggert wrote:
>> yup
However, perhaps my "little" essay answers some of sur-behoffski's
considerations.
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Paul Jackson
jack...@fastmail.fm
On 2025-01-16 15:32, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM sur-behoffski
> wrote:
> [...]>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I went with Paul's (keeping it concise is
> important), so --help now prints this:
>
> When FILE is '-', read standard input. If no FILE is given, read standa
