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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new code in cvs for plan9ports; not in web tarball
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:54:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406210854.i5L8s5Y01166@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:14:54 -0400." <ee9e417a0406201514f40a0ce@mail.gmail.com>

I asked:
> > Just a thought: would it make sense to also support
> > (for a more 'seamless' integration in the X11 world)
> > some of the common X11 command line options, like
> >  -display and -geometry or would the multi-character
> > nature of them completely 'conflict' with the plan 9
> > way of doing things?
> > (I can understand arguments pro and contra, I just
> >  thought it could be nice to raise the issue, once)
> 
> these options are fundamentally at odds with the
> plan 9 way of parsing options.  

ok. I already thought so. thanks for replying.

Axel.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-21  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-20 16:45 Russ Cox
2004-06-20 19:08 ` Axel Belinfante
2004-06-20 22:14   ` Russ Cox
2004-06-21  8:54     ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2004-06-21 12:06 matt
2004-06-21 13:04 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros

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