On 2010-08-02, Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@oracle.com> wrote: > Right. There's no good convention for "end of list of arguments to an > option". There's only a good convention for "end of variable argument > list" ('--'), and since this is the closest thing...
And since there _is_ a convention that '--' ends the option list, it's A Bad Thing(TM) to use it for something else. I think violating the almost universal convention about what '--' means is a terrible idea, but apparently we're now stuck with it. The standard way to pass a list of filenames on a command line is to do it indirectly by putting the filenames in a file, and passing that filename. That seems to work fine for dozens (or hundreds) of other programs, so I don't see any reason why mutt shouldn't follow that convention. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Sometime in 1993 at NANCY SINATRA will lead a gmail.com BLOODLESS COUP on GUAM!!