Re: improving usability by removing the - in the middle of a command

[Bendtsen, Jon]

On 18/10/2012, at 10.44, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Bendtsen, Jon wrote:
>> I here by propose that you remove the - in the middle of any
>> commands. The purpose is to improve the usability because having to
>> type a - in the middle of a command interrupts my keyboard flow, where
>> as not typing it does not.
>> 
>> Further more there is only 1 command that has this issue, and that is
>> 
>>  align-check TYPE N check partition N for TYPE(min|opt) alignment
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but that hyphen makes the command name more
> readable.  Removing it would break scripts using the hyphen, and adding
> an alias would seem to be unwarranted complication for minimal benefit.

use a blank space?
        align check optimal 1
space is easier to type than - a lot easier.



> Besides, how often do you type commands to parted?
> If you find yourself doing it a lot, I would suggest
> that you script it, if only to decrease possibility of error.

I type it every time I create a new partition to test that it is properly 
aligned.