Op 23-03-09 18:04, Jari Aalto schreef:
[GNU long options]
I'd like to propose another approach. It would be possible to use:
#ifdef HAS_GNU_GETOPT
at compile time to offer --long options for those platforms that have
the GNU libraries installed.
Would you accept a patch for this?
Op 22-03-09 16:21, Jari Aalto schreef:
Erwin Waterlander water...@xs4all.nl writes:
It's a bit difficult to follow top-posted emails, when the
conversation does not flow naturally.
From user perspective, unifying the command line options would be a good
thing, thus I propose moving forward
Op 23-03-09 10:12, Erwin Waterlander schreef:
Op 22-03-09 16:21, Jari Aalto schreef:
Erwin Waterlander water...@xs4all.nl writes:
It's a bit difficult to follow top-posted emails, when the
conversation does not flow naturally.
From user perspective, unifying the command line options would
Erwin Waterlander water...@xs4all.nl writes:
Op 22-03-09 16:21, Jari Aalto schreef:
We can observe the use of equivalent short options in GNU programs (as
shows in previous messages). The utilities that are used daily, those
of:
cp -v
mv -v
ssh -v
Erwin Waterlander water...@xs4all.nl writes:
It's a bit difficult to follow top-posted emails, when the
conversation does not flow naturally.
From user perspective, unifying the command line options would be a good
thing, thus I propose moving forward with -v, --verbose and -V,
--version as
Hi,
I have not searched much, but what I have seen so far is that Gnu
standardises only on the long options.
See
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html
Can you point me to a document about standardised short options?
Wcd does not use long options. Wcd
There are also plenty of programs that use -v for version info. E.g.
zip, mutt, pine, troff, nroff, firefox, thunderbird, file, strings,
kcd ... also programs that use -V for verbose. E.g. vim.
In the world of software, programs are written without any contact
between various
Hi,
There are also plenty of programs that use -v for version info.
E.g. zip, mutt, pine, troff, nroff, firefox, thunderbird, file, strings, kcd
I could go on if I searched more...
And there are also programs that use -V for verbose.
E.g. vim.
But you may be right. There may be more programs
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