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Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement
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Mark Krenz |
Subject: |
Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:10:29 +0000 |
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:54:31PM GMT, Jim Meyering [address@hidden] said the
following:
> > Eventually another option may come along and all the people who are used
>
> If we were adding options frequently and/or blindly,
> you might have a point, but we're well aware of the issues
> and add new options infrequently. When we do, we take care
> not to impinge on existing abbreviations.
Thank you for the good job you have been doing in filtering out the
bad requests. I feel that most GNU commands are consise and not
littered with useless options.
If you don't like the suggestion of using -C for the short option,
then would you suggest another letter that would be better?
--
Mark Krenz
address@hidden
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- cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Mark Krenz, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Jim Meyering, 2012/04/06
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Mark Krenz, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Jim Meyering, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement,
Mark Krenz <=
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Eric Blake, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Mark Krenz, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Eric Blake, 2012/04/05
- Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement, Mark Krenz, 2012/04/05