Subject: bug#34026: mention that long options aren't always as good as short options

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:31:16 -0700

severity 34026 wishlist
retitle 34026 doc: explain long-vs-short options
stop

Hello,

On 2019-01-09 9:23 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Yes do warn in the manual, as here root (so no $HOME) expected tilde
> expansion... Thanks.

I'm marking this as a wish-list item.

If we are to add a section dedicated to options parsing,
it's worth noting related discussion about using two dashes
to stop processing ( http://bugs.gnu.org/33942 ),
and some similar section in the guile manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Command-Line-Format.html

regards,
  - assaf