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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
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: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:14:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0406201514f40a0ce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406201908.i5KJ8hn26197@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>

> Nice!
> 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.  

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-20 22:14 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 [this message]
2004-06-21  8:54     ` Axel Belinfante
2004-06-21 12:06 matt
2004-06-21 13:04 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros

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