Help: Use placeholder instead of listing choices in option lines

This avoids any ambiguity with whether the choices are literal
values or not. It also makes the option lines more concise.

Help/manual/cmake.1.rst

@@ -497,10 +497,12 @@ Options
  a variable called ``MYVAR`` to ``1``, but the user sets it to ``2`` with a
  ``-D`` argument, the value ``2`` is preferred.
 
-.. option:: --list-presets, --list-presets=<[configure | build | test | all]>
+.. option:: --list-presets[=<type>]
 
- Lists the available presets. If no option is specified only configure presets
- will be listed. The current working directory must contain CMake preset files.
+ Lists the available presets of the specified ``<type>``.  Valid values for
+ ``<type>`` are ``configure``, ``build``, ``test``, or ``all``.  If ``<type>``
+ is omitted, ``configure`` is assumed.  The current working directory must
+ contain CMake preset files.
 
 .. _`Build Tool Mode`:
 
@@ -560,14 +562,15 @@ following options:
   Build target ``clean`` first, then build.
   (To clean only, use :option:`--target clean <cmake --target>`.)
 
-.. option:: --resolve-package-references=<on|off|only>
+.. option:: --resolve-package-references=<value>
 
   .. versionadded:: 3.23
 
   Resolve remote package references from external package managers (e.g. NuGet)
-  before build. When set to ``on`` (default), packages will be restored before
-  building a target. When set to ``only``, the packages will be restored, but no
-  build will be performed. When set to ``off``, no packages will be restored.
+  before build. When ``<value>`` is set to ``on`` (default), packages will be
+  restored before building a target.  When ``<value>`` is set to ``only``, the
+  packages will be restored, but no build will be performed.  When
+  ``<value>`` is set to ``off``, no packages will be restored.
 
   If the target does not define any package references, this option does nothing.
 

Help/manual/ctest.1.rst

@@ -419,9 +419,10 @@ Run Tests
  This option will not run any tests, it will simply print the list of
  all labels associated with the test set.
 
-.. option:: --no-tests=<[error|ignore]>
+.. option:: --no-tests=<action>
 
- Regard no tests found either as error or ignore it.
+ Regard no tests found either as error (when ``<action>`` is set to
+ ``error``) or ignore it (when ``<action>`` is set to ``ignore``).
 
  If no tests were found, the default behavior of CTest is to always log an
  error message but to return an error code in script mode only.  This option

Source/cmakemain.cxx

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ const char* cmDocumentationUsageNote[][2] = {
 const char* cmDocumentationOptions[][2] = {
   CMAKE_STANDARD_OPTIONS_TABLE,
   { "--preset <preset>,--preset=<preset>", "Specify a configure preset." },
-  { "--list-presets", "List available presets." },
+  { "--list-presets[=<type>]", "List available presets." },
   { "-E", "CMake command mode." },
   { "-L[A][H]", "List non-advanced cached variables." },
   { "--fresh",
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ const char* cmDocumentationOptions[][2] = {
   { "-P <file>", "Process script mode." },
   { "--find-package", "Legacy pkg-config like mode.  Do not use." },
   { "--graphviz=<file>",
-    "Generate graphviz of dependencies, see "
-    "CMakeGraphVizOptions.cmake for more." },
+    "Generate graphviz of dependencies, see CMakeGraphVizOptions.cmake for "
+    "more." },
   { "--system-information [file]", "Dump information about this system." },
   { "--log-level=<ERROR|WARNING|NOTICE|STATUS|VERBOSE|DEBUG|TRACE>",
     "Set the verbosity of messages from CMake files. "
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ const char* cmDocumentationOptions[][2] = {
   { "--warn-uninitialized", "Warn about uninitialized values." },
   { "--no-warn-unused-cli", "Don't warn about command line options." },
   { "--check-system-vars",
-    "Find problems with variable usage in system "
-    "files." },
+    "Find problems with variable usage in system files." },
   { "--compile-no-warning-as-error",
     "Ignore COMPILE_WARNING_AS_ERROR property and "
     "CMAKE_COMPILE_WARNING_AS_ERROR variable." },
@@ -616,7 +615,7 @@ int do_build(int ac, char const* const* av)
       "  <dir>          = Project binary directory to be built.\n"
       "  --preset <preset>, --preset=<preset>\n"
       "                 = Specify a build preset.\n"
-      "  --list-presets\n"
+      "  --list-presets[=<type>]\n"
       "                 = List available build presets.\n"
       "  --parallel [<jobs>], -j [<jobs>]\n"
       "                 = Build in parallel using the given number of jobs. \n"