From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:54:36 GMT
Subject: Re: pedantry: is there a standard for what should be in the SYNOPSIS?
Message-ID: <20171121175436.GA27041@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1711210925530.6795@DESKTOP-1GPMCEJ>

Hi,

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> following up on an earlier question of mine, is there a standard for
> what options should be listed in either the SYNOPSIS or the
> DESCRIPTION sections of a man page? i ask since i'm seeing some
> definite inconsistency.

No standard.  Seems worth starting a discussion on what you'd like the
standard to be.

Jonathan