Re: [Gnu-arch-users] option abbrevs/invisible-aliases in hackerlab?

[Thomas Zander]

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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 02:22, Miles Bader wrote:
> An interesting side-effect of the renamed tla command `changes', from
> `what-changed', is that I find myself always typing:
>
>    tla changes --diff
>
> where of course it should be `--diffs'.  This never used to be a problem
> with `what-changed', so I guess it's my builtin english grammar rules
> intruding -- it's positively _hard_ to type two plurals in a row.*
>
> In most gnu programs this wouldn't actually be an error, because options
> are allowed to be abbreviated, but the hackerlab option parsing stuff
> doesn't seem to implement this.

I was (really) missing that as well; the archument to tla are really really 
hard to learn for non native speakers...
If this was in place those 'help-cluttering' aliases would be cut in half, 
making the whole more understandable for all.

Just a thought for better usability.
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Thomas Zander
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