Historically 's' presumably stood both for step and seed, but since we don't support seed anymore I think it's wise to make things a little more readable and just rename 's' to 'step'.
tb@ already agrees with the concept. OK? martijn@ Index: jot.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1,v retrieving revision 1.23 diff -u -p -r1.23 jot.1 --- jot.1 12 Aug 2016 21:49:31 -0000 1.23 +++ jot.1 13 Aug 2021 06:57:56 -0000 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ .Op Fl s Ar string .Op Fl w Ar word .Oo Ar reps Oo Ar begin Oo Ar end -.Oo Ar s Oc Oc Oc Oc +.Oo Ar step Oc Oc Oc Oc .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ The default values for .Ar begin , .Ar end , and -.Ar s +.Ar step are 100, 1, 100, and 1, respectively. Omitted values are computed if possible or assume the default. A special case arises if only @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if is greater than .Ar end then -.Ar s +.Ar step is set to \(mi1, otherwise it is set to 1; afterwards .Ar reps @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Random numbers are obtained through Historical versions of .Nm used -.Ar s +.Ar step to seed the random number generator. This is no longer supported. The name
