From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Thu Aug 30 07:50:51 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F252E10978DF for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuripv@yuripv.net) Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com (wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9094B760F4 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuripv@yuripv.net) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272F3384 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:50:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yuripv.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm2; bh=TLonfk9Wh2Rpxqg69HsRCb/zR5Xav5Mn5fWfA4dGeao=; b=pTHbpge4 k/uv+7FnKctRGfexx3WIBakIHUChnSxIPR1/ZDXwjruHq2bzwbd60Q4K6xM0XQwg uaJ7B5X89RHJtkF6PNPpe+2anCdf47jnTra2YMEa0hoOmJSAnknaUZ97RdutIXR/ r2WAZzf6Diy3C6i9sZrwXkQex3PzQ7EJ+ae/bf58zgFgAQo8I0rWMlq48rSGKWx2 3dezLKcyRBUUoLDb2qXIy7qgwi7GxEIKOGue0MMwrlgzIq2if+C83RNV6Mu5tEp2 eO3Qn6MWKzakLM6lk4etmEfMxzFBIfWZpQbR3V1y4JmS5rlOtP98X/mcf05KYthT zQ8H8W7239UMKA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=TLonfk9Wh2Rpxqg69HsRCb/zR5Xav 5Mn5fWfA4dGeao=; b=wbCADOVW43tBZBSApaVeU+f8zKzpm752txAP1eCCjaoP0 YgUx+rzZ78WKVEJWTFyXWN0xAaWDA7xGodmoMqvjYCCyon7qehUthf1yvOYxIuAU OkLwsrilSrrGKWj+/TrMmAf4TB/JATYeMIkIndj+WdNmeX9UZAv/AekS3T5G+hg2 TZe5O+f5ro3ydRWO5aipha+w0txTbB9fywLVxi+CfnQWneW10wAQf1Qu4Z09o2xX HUUzOdMrZ2yD31U1jaeN6hLIKdFiuREwTZyv7kYOvr2netGeny56KlvZglY/ch40 xw4OtZ2Vd5K4yX4XSR8ggUzod2FxKMgWGdGl+KJbw== X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [178.34.99.43]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D4D6C1029A for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:50:47 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-doc From: Yuri Pankov Subject: option sort order in usage/man pages/documentation Message-ID: <9e434314-485d-6dd2-c7af-17ca0c49313c@yuripv.net> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:50:46 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:50:51 -0000 Hi, I'm working on some man page updates, and, thinking about consistency, been wondering if there's any policy set on the order of options that one should use in usage messages/man pages/other documentation, i.e. is it 'ABCabc', 'AaBbCc', or 'aAbBcC' (or anything else really, I hope 'unsorted' isn't possible answer here).