Hi Jason,

Jason McIntyre wrote on Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 02:46:47PM +0100:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 03:42:21PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Theo de Raadt wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:57:11AM -0600:

>>> I think we should list shorts, and longs which have no shorts.

>> I agree, and i think we arrived at the same conclusion in the past.
>> 
>> It applies to both usage() and SYNOPSIS, and ideally, both should
>> match, except maybe in very unusual cases.

> sure. but grep tripped me up, and it's always the page i think of with
> long options. why did we leave --context in SYNOPSIS?

I admit the grep(1) case is slightly confusing, but it is explained
here why it is somewhat special:

  https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/grep/grep.1#rev1.47

Yours,
  Ingo

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