port search --maintainer[s]

[Jan Stary]

On Mar 30 21:06:59, raimue at macports.org wrote:
> On 03/30/2017 06:18 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> > This is 2.4.99 from git running on 10.6.8.
> > The 'port search' recognizes '--maintainer' and '--maintainers',
> > but the guide says '--maintainer' and '--maintainer'
> > while port-search.1 only says '--maintainer'.
> > Attached please find a diff for each.
> 
> Note that all long options can be shortened as long as they are unique, so you
> could even use 'port search --maint foobar'.

$ port search --maint mandoc
Error: "port search --maint" is ambiguous: 
  port search --maintainer
  port search --maintainers

> Maybe we want to simplify the code
> and leave out the explicit singular forms (although we cannot do that for
> "categories")?

I don't understand why there is more then one at all.

Anyway, the "--maintainer, --maintainer" in the guide cannot be right,
and the port-search manpage does mention e.g. *--variant*, *--variants*::
so why should --maintainer(s) be different?

	Jan