Subject: Re: bug#21356: BUG: split shorter version of '--numeric-suffixes' give error

From: Stephane Chazelas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:43:17 +0100

2015-08-27 16:18:51 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > info page:
[...]
> > It's easy to miss that it's not `-d[FROM]` here. A note along
> > these lines could help:
> > 
> > "Note that the FROM value can only be specified with the long
> > option from."
> 
> Done at:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=da5505dd7f

Thanks.

> I can't think of any suitably terse improvements for the man page.
[...]

Maybe something like:

  -d                          use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic
                              (starting at 0)
  --numeric-suffixes[=FROM]   same as above but allows changing the
                              starting value.

As in effect, they are different options.

-- 
Stephane