Clarify :option: description.

a5ed4016 · Georg Brandl · 70f355d1 · a5ed4016
Commit a5ed4016 authored Jul 19, 2010 by Georg Brandl
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 .. describe:: option
-   A command-line option to an executable program.  The leading hyphen(s) must
+   A command-line option of Python.  The leading hyphen(s) must be included.
-   be included.  If a matching ``cmdoption`` directive exists, it is linked to.
+   If a matching ``cmdoption`` directive exists, it is linked to.  For options
+   of other programs or scripts, use simple ````code```` markup.
 .. describe:: program