[Moving to -dev] Re: Charles Cazabon 2007-03-21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I expressed my idea incompletely. What I meant was: > > > > If -a is followed by any other token beginning with -, all > > tokens between -a and that '-'-token are taken to be > > attachments. > > If -a is not followed by any other token beginning with -, the > > first token following -a is taken to be an attachment and all > > subsequent tokens are taken to be recipients. > > I think that'd violate the principle of least surprise, and is likely to > confuse users as a result.
I'm beginning to like the idea. The separator should be "--" though,
not anything starting with a '-'.
The syntax is even "almost" backwards compatible:
mutt -a filelist -- rcptlist
mutt -a file rcptlist
The incompatible case would be "mutt rcpt -- rcpt", but I don't think
anyone using "--" would put it past the first recipient. ("--" wasn't
even documented until last week...)
Christoph
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