----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:47 28/2/01 +0100, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> At 04:42 23/2/01 +1100, Conor MacNeill wrote: > >>>why? > >> > >> why not? ;) > > > >Because doing so would imply our default action is wrong? > > I think it is ;) I think default should be > > " -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger -emacs" > > because that is what most people expect from other similar tools.
Well, that isn't really an argument, is it? I mean I could say that people expect an arcane, tab-delimited syntax from similar tools. :-) > > >Don't think so, -emacs should be the exception IMHO. > > Possibly but it increases the effort required to develope ant udner certain > tools (emacs/vi/*edit). We could compromise and use yet another environment variable - ANT_EMACS - just for you, Pete. Overall I'm -0 on changing. Thought I'd save anyone the trouble of degrading a -1. Conor
