Re: [PATCH] Use recommended long options syntax in man page

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:30:59 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message "%s" (cos 0))'
> 
> far more often than I see one like this:
> 
> emacs -Q --batch --eval='(message "%s" (cos 0))'
> 
> Although the latter form also works, I don't see any reason to recommend it 
> to 
> the former; quite the contrary, as the former is easier to type.

The latter works in more use cases than the former, see bug#24949.  So
recommending it will trip fewer newbies.