Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: User-defined "macro" commands

[James Blackwell]

In lists.arch.users, Dustin wrote:
>
> On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:50 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
>> You've posted this same silly rant about five times now, please give it
>> a (longer) rest.
>
>       Is this really the best answer one can expect from this list?  
> Honestly, I made a suggestion I believe might improve tla, gave both 
> reasons and examples for that position, and this is all you have to 
> offer?  Are you really incapable of saying anything more than ``No it's 
> not'' and insulting my ideas?

Dustin, what did you expect? 

You've brought the subject up several times and failed to reach any sort
of consensus each time. I agree with Miles that if your suggestions were
worthwile they would have found traction long ago. 

I happen to like what command aliases give us. They give us the ability
to change the name of commands yet leave the original command name
available for a period of time while the public adjusts.

At this point, since you've failed to reach a concensus, you have the
following choices: 

1. You can privately fork tla and remove the aliases by editing 
src/libarch/cmds.c.

2. You can make a shell wrapper. This untested wrapper would probably do
   what you want.

    #!/bin/sh
    # Rename tla to tla.real and rename this to tla
    case "$1" in
      help)
        tla.real $* | grep -v alias
      ;;
      *) 
        tla $*
      ;;
    esac

3. You can live with it, and let people worry about more important
   issues. 

4. You can continue to try and push the issue. However, if you do this,
   I'm willing to bet that you'll end up killfiled by so many people
   that your opinion on other, more important, issues will cease to
   exist.


In summation, tla is not generically broken because what you want hasn't
occurred. At *best* tla is broken for you specifically.


Happy holidays,
James


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