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diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi index aa4134b..20e11ef 100644 --- a/manual/getopt.texi +++ b/manual/getopt.texi @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ is treated specially. It permits arguments that are not options to be returned as if they were associated with option character @samp{\1}. @item -POSIX demands the following behavior: The first non-option stops option +POSIX demands the following behavior: the first non-option stops option processing. This mode is selected by either setting the environment variable @code{POSIXLY_CORRECT} or beginning the @var{options} argument string with a plus sign (@samp{+}). @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ options to accept (see above). When @code{getopt_long} encounters a short option, it does the same thing that @code{getopt} would do: it returns the character code for the -option, and stores the options argument (if it has one) in @code{optarg}. +option, and stores the option's argument (if it has one) in @code{optarg}. When @code{getopt_long} encounters a long option, it takes actions based on the @code{flag} and @code{val} fields of the definition of that @@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ When @code{getopt_long} has no more options to handle, it returns @var{argv} of the next remaining argument. @end deftypefun -Since long option names were used before the @code{getopt_long} -options was invented there are program interfaces which require programs +Since long option names were used before @code{getopt_long} +was invented there are program interfaces which require programs to recognize options like @w{@samp{-option value}} instead of @w{@samp{--option value}}. To enable these programs to use the GNU getopt functionality there is one more function available. @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ getopt functionality there is one more function available. @c Same issues as getopt. The @code{getopt_long_only} function is equivalent to the -@code{getopt_long} function but it allows to specify the user of the +@code{getopt_long} function but it allows the user of the application to pass long options with only @samp{-} instead of @samp{--}. The @samp{--} prefix is still recognized but instead of looking through the short options if a @samp{-} is seen it is first |