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

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 18.10.2012 10:44, schrieb Jim Meyering:
> 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.

"check" could be seen as a parameter for the command "align", same as "opt", or 
better:
check align ... (the command should be the verb)

-Ulf