On 2017-03-30 23:44, Jan Stary wrote: > On Mar 30 21:06:59, [email protected] wrote: >> On 03/30/2017 06:18 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >>> This is 2.4.99 from git running on 10.6.8. >>> The 'port search' recognizes '--maintainer' and '--maintainers', >>> but the guide says '--maintainer' and '--maintainer' >>> while port-search.1 only says '--maintainer'. >>> Attached please find a diff for each. >> >> Note that all long options can be shortened as long as they are unique, so >> you >> could even use 'port search --maint foobar'. > > $ port search --maint mandoc > Error: "port search --maint" is ambiguous: > port search --maintainer > port search --maintainers
Sorry, that's what happens when I do not test my examples... >> Maybe we want to simplify the code >> and leave out the explicit singular forms (although we cannot do that for >> "categories")? > > I don't understand why there is more then one at all. In natural language you would use either singular or plural, depending on the way it is used in a query. The port command just tries to be as convenient as possible. > Anyway, the "--maintainer, --maintainer" in the guide cannot be right, > and the port-search manpage does mention e.g. *--variant*, *--variants*:: > so why should --maintainer(s) be different? I did not mean that this was right. Apparently the other cases are already covered, so I just applied these changes. https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/9de94319489d80b9aacff5f05b92375c7673c56c https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/commit/663338ef8d442e4908f21ac7d04d7ba368cef4c7 Rainer
