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one letter options no longer leftmost in man pages


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: one letter options no longer leftmost in man pages
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 06:02:39 +0800
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Is this your manual page?
       This manual page documents the GNU version of xargs.  xargs reads argu-
Sounds like it.
If so, can you kindly refrain from hiding the one letter options
further into the line:
       --null, -0
              Input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by

       --eof[=eof-str], -e[eof-str]
              Set the end of file string to  eof-str.   If  the  end  of  file

       --replace[=replace-str], -i[replace-str]
              Replace occurences of replace-str in the initial arguments  with

       --max-lines[=max-lines], -l[max-lines]
              Use  at  most  max-lines  nonblank input lines per command line;

You see, it's driving my eye nuts trying to dig them out. Please put
them at front like everybody did until your new practice.

I.e. the -O -e -i -l should be the first thing the eye meets on a line.
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