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Subject: Re: [patch] main.c (captured_main): Alphabetically sort long_options.
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Doug" =3D=3D Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
>
> Doug> fyi, I will check this in in two days if there are no objections.
>
> It is fine by me.
>
> Doug> A good next step would be update --help output,
> Doug> but I was going to wait until after this goes in.
>
> FWIW I think --help output is most useful when it is broken into
> sections, and then sorting is applied in each section. =A0See "tar" or
> "automake" for reasonable examples.

Yeah, good point.
If you compare --help output with the contents of long_options, you'll
see --help is in need of some TLC.