On 2001-08-20-22:32, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to Paul Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > I thought that single-dashes *were* a longstanding Unix convention, and that
> > more verbose double-dash equivalents are a more recent GNU augmentation that
> > not everyone likes. But hey, what
2001-08-20 22:32:52, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> BTW, Win users expect /option
No, we don't.
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
> I do know that I've been setting -nosplash as a command-line argument
> to numerous Windows apps for far too long now to be happy about
> changing this in an XP way.
>
> If anyone's interested in really looking at spiffing up our
> command-line support, wou
According to Paul Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I thought that single-dashes *were* a longstanding Unix convention, and that
> more verbose double-dash equivalents are a more recent GNU augmentation that
> not everyone likes. But hey, what do I know.
Signle dashes are for short and combinabl
At 10:10 PM 8/20/01 +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>According to Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> But, for instance, we have --nosplash in the GNOME build, and -nosplash in
>> the GTK build. I think that we should make this consistent (on other
>> platforms too, I guess). I'd like to go wi
According to Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> But, for instance, we have --nosplash in the GNOME build, and -nosplash in
> the GTK build. I think that we should make this consistent (on other
> platforms too, I guess). I'd like to go with the double-dash format.
>
> What do people think?
So, AbiWord supports a number of command line parameters.
One evil thing is that the GTK and GNOME builds actually have different
command-line parameters.
The GNOME command-line parameter handling is kind of convoluted, actually.
But, for instance, we have --nosplash in the GNOME build, and
