[Ml-yokadi] Request for change t_list -t behaviour

[Aurélien Gâteau]

(Sorry about late answer, I am a father for the 2nd time!)

Sébastien Renard a écrit :
> Le mercredi 30 septembre 2009 13:52:24, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
>> I would rather add a long option only first, then find a short option
>> after using it for a while, if we find out we use it a lot.
> 
> Why not just keep -t as we have now ?

"-t" does not sound like a shortcut for "overdue". Furthermore, it would
change the existing option behavior, this sounds like a bad thing to do
to users (even if I agree it is not the most used option)

>> I believe we went a bit wild in the beginning and allocated too many
>> short options. Using long options could be made more user friendly if we
>> had completion on options
> 
> Sure, it is a very good idea ! 

I gave it a try, but it's not as simple as I expected, because readline
does not return the correct begidx value for completion if the completed
word starts with "-". Need to investigate.

>> and a display of the help message when using
>> an unknown option.
> 
> For now this is silently ignored to allow user to make something like the 
> following without the hassle of escaping : 
> bug_add my_project why the hell option --foo and -b do not work ?

Good point, but this is probably not relevant for t_list.

Aurélien