From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: -M options
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:51:02 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7339.199606062151@downwind.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199606062108.XAA03197@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jun 6, 96 11:08:33 pm
>I'd like to add these, and I have all of these letters saved. I just do
>not like -M since it is not intuitive enough. ksh uses -p which seems to
>be much better but it clashes with many other builtin option. I did not
>add these mainly because of this.
I rationalised that -M could refer to coMMands. It would also mean
that the two options meaning the same thing to several builtins would
be -m and -M, which makes it a little easier to remember.
-L (for List, I suppose) would be my first choice, if it were not for
the clash in typeset. Maybe we could leave typeset as an exception,
though it is a rather large exception.
I don't see any better candidates than these two, unless we want to use
a digit (though that would also cause some confusion with typeset) or a
punctuation character.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-06 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 20:55 Zefram
1996-06-06 21:08 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-06 21:51 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-06-06 22:18 ` Goran Larsson
1996-06-07 4:16 ` Richard Coleman
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