Re: Examples in _arguments description

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> The following paragraph looks strange:
> 
>  Every spec may also contain a list of option names and argument
>  numbers with which the option or argument described is mutually
>  exclusive. Such a list is given in parentheses at the
>  beginning, as in `(-two -three 1)-one:...' or `(-foo):...'. In
>  the first example, the options `-two' and `-three' and the
>  first argument will not be offered as possible completions if
>  the option `-one' is on the line before the cursor. Also, the
>  list may contain a single star as one of its elements to
>  specify that the description for the rest arguments should not
>  be used and it may contain a colon to specify that the
>  descriptions for all normal (non-option-) arguments should not
>  be used.
> 
> The second example `(-foo):...' is not mentioned anywhere and looks a
> bit strange anyway.

What do you mean by `not mentioned anywhere'? It's described
immediately before that: `with which the option *or argument* ...'.

And why does it look `strange'? (At least not stranger than other
things I've written ;-)

Bye
 Sven


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