On 2010-08-03, Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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 convention is that '--' ends the entire option list, not a list of > arguments to a single option.
Yes. > Therefore mutt clearly uses something other than the existing > convention. I thought that's what I wrote. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Here I am at the flea at market but nobody is buying gmail.com my urine sample bottles ...