Stefan `Sec` Zehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 15 Nov 1999:
> more useless code, nobody will use them since they are far to long to
> type. You cant combine them. And the short ones are compatible to other
> programs like elm.
All true, but there is one good thing about them: when there's a program
invocation using the long-form options, it's usually obvious at a glance
what each option does even for a strange program that you've never seen
before. With the single letter options, you need to look it up in the
man page or program -h.
For the uses of Mutt, this isn't much of a gain.
I'm personally neutral, I wouldn't hate having long options available
but I also wouldn't use them myself.
Mikko
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