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

[Bendtsen, Jon]

On 18/10/2012, at 12.55, Ulf Zibis wrote:

> 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)

Maybe

check optimal align(ment) ?


JonB