Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > Why are they recommended? They are so often omitted that at this point
>
> What is omitted, where?

The equals sign between "--longoption" and its operand. That is, I see a shell 
command like this:

emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message "%s" (cos 0))'

far more often than I see one like this:

emacs -Q --batch --eval='(message "%s" (cos 0))'

Although the latter form also works, I don't see any reason to recommend it to 
the former; quite the contrary, as the former is easier to type.