Re: rm issue

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2006 9:14 AM:
>> No.  Those who want `short' can use -I.
>> Although --ask-once does sound nice, I want to keep things minimal,
>> in case we end up providing similar functionality for other commands,
>> where adding a long-named synonym might make an existing abbreviation
>> ambiguous -- --ask-once would do just that to cp --a(rchive).
>
> With that, here goes.  Changes from the first submittal:  --interactive
> without WHEN defaults to -i, NEWS and coreutils.texi touched up to match
> this change, and 2 test files are added.
>
> ChangeLog:
> 2006-02-18  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>       * TODO (rm): Implement rm -I.
>       * NEWS: Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.

Thanks.  Applied.