Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement (original) (raw)

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From: Mark Krenz
Subject: Re: cut enhancement: -C as short option for --complement
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:10:29 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

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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