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date error message should say -I

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Message #23 received at 44959 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 44959 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44959: date error message should say -I
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:57:21 +0100

Hi Padraig,

On 11/30/20 10:31 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> For my reference, if we were to give explicit diagnosis of the leading '='.
> we would need to update xstrtol_fatal, XARGMATCH, operand2sig, set_fields, ...

I'd also rather keep it like it is, but if we change something:
we could advance past the '=' character in the option arg value
... at least in the case where only enumeration or numeric values
are expected (which obviously aren't too many).

Have a nice day,
Berny

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