Updated version, hopefully adressing kevans input.

Thanks for the input. I've changed the manpage -- hopefully addressing all issues correctly.
But just to be sure I understood things properly: I should upload a diff with 1260 lines
containing just 30 lines of changes?

The asterisk and the minus sign form special variables.

Fine with me, but please check my comments.

So how shall we proceed with this? While I am not happy with the --no-supervise idea (because of
the confusion it might produce) I could make a patch which

Hmm, what will happen if one uses --no-supervise (with or even w/o -p) but has given other
options which need supervising? Should we silently ignore --no-supervise? Or spit out a
warning or even an error?
Not thinking about the code which has to honour --no-supervise when finished parsing all
options and then has to decide what to do...