From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200406210854.i5L8s5Y01166@zamenhof.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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:14:54 -0400." References: <200406201908.i5KJ8hn26197@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> From: Axel Belinfante MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1164.1087808045.1@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:54:05 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8698d44-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.