From: jaalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 7622@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7622: [PATCH] lib-src/emacsclient.c: Change -H to -h. Order options alphabetically
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:21:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411052152.GO13747@taiko.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y5q3p2ru.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
On 2012-04-11 01:48, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
| Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
|
| > The patch changes help option to lowercase -h like found e.g. in GNU
| > cp(1). The option help is also presented alphabetically.
|
| [larsi@stories ~/src/emacs/trunk]$ cp -h
| cp: invalid option -- 'h'
|
| So I don't think this change would be correct.
I remembered wrong. GNU uses --long options for cp(1) and mv(1); I
assume because it wanted to reserve all short options.
But almot universally lowercase -h, is understood as a synonym for
--help. At least for emacsclient that would work well as there are no
conflicting options[*].
The patch would also make the listing a little easier; alphabetical as
in GNU programs in general.
Jari
[*] -H and -h could have been taken to mean something else for
historical reasons in other programs.
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2010-12-12 14:48 bug#7622: [PATCH] lib-src/emacsclient.c: Change -H to -h. Order options alphabetically Jari Aalto
2012-04-10 23:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-11 5:21 ` jaalto [this message]
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