Re: option concatenation

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:31:48PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
>> How hard would it be to make it so that I can type, for instance,
>> gp -qfs128m, instead of gp -q -f -s128m?  Option concatenation is
>> standard in GNU programs.
>
> I am neutral about this. This is certainly not a GNU standard.

It's not hard. But it the code would be more complicated, and I don't think
it would be very useful [ write an alias if you use it over and over again ].

> I would like
>
> $ gp file.gp
> do the equivalent of
> $ gp
> ? \rfile.gp

You don't really want this. read("file.gp") looks more appropriate [ don't
want to clutter history entries, etc ]. In fact, I believe you want the
equivalent of a sequence of 'read' statements from .gprc.

I've implemented this [ one can use gp file1 file2 ... ]

I've also cleaned the command-line options, so that single letter flags take
a single dash, and long flags two dashes: -test and -emacs did not fit this
pattern. Now, it's --test, --emacs, with the old form still recognized for
backward compatibility, but undocumented.

I've updated the man page (gp.1) and usersch2.tex.

    Karim.
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