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docs: clarify combining short options#3200

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Fixes #2779.

Adds a short docs section under docs/options.md explaining:

  • POSIX-style short option stacking (e.g. -abc == -a -b -c for flag options)
  • That Click does not support multi-character short option names (so -dbg is parsed as -d -b -g)

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Wrong error message when wrong multicharacter short option is passed

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