Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Minor quibbles

[Aaron Bentley]

Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:

> > I don't particularly seen the need for verbose forms, especially since 
> > changing that would mean changing the behavior of move.
>
>
>  Nope, move is a synonym for "mv-id" like it is now.

Robert Collins doesn't like the fact that move does move-id, and if one 
of the main Arch developers sometimes gets tripped up by that, then it's 
probably a Bad Idea.  I'd go so far as to call it user-hostile.  I'm all 
for removing "move" entirely.

>  rename     is a synonym for move (never have liked that unixism)

Oh, and I suppose this makes perfect sense:
$ alias rename="mv"
$ mkdir foo
$ touch bar
$ rename bar foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--    1 abentley abentley        0 Mar 17 11:30 bar

I thought you wanted to make things simpler?!  Your list contains 12 
ways to express 4 operations, and it leaves out move-id and delete-id 
(which I'd be opposed to removing, deleting, trashing or expunging, 
since they're the canonical forms).

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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