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Re: -M options
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1283
- From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
- Subject: Re: -M options
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:51:02 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <199606062108.XAA03197@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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