From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id HAA17205 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 07:57:26 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA29386; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:51:39 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:51:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <7339.199606062151@downwind.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: -M options To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:51:02 +0100 (BST) Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199606062108.XAA03197@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jun 6, 96 11:08:33 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7619.55 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"XsBIm2.0.4B7.gBrjn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1283 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >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