Reorder the command line options in the manual #2766
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| You can affect how jq reads and writes its input and output | |||
| using some command-line options: | |||
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| * `--version`/`-V`: | |||
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You don't think --version should be first?
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I think the option (at least the long option) is obvious and don't think it should be first.
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I have always thought the order of command line options in the manual is very unfriendly. It lists
--seqand--streamat the top, but they are used less often than--null-inputand--compact-output. In #2747, I ordered the list carefully to make it easy to understand, and in this PR, I reordered the manual to match the output of--help. Roughly in the order of input options, output options, advanced input/output options (--stream,--seq), module options, arg options, and other options.