Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 11:49:13 +0100
From: Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org>
Message-ID: <20200506104913.GA21901@lt2.masqnet>
| There have certainly been bug resolutions in the past that have
| included "move xxx to after yyy" type instructions. They are rare
| because it's unusual to move something without also changing it.
OK, I had not seen one.
| If you are worried that specifying the changes piecemeal will make
| it harder to review the end result, you could add:
|
| The end result of the above changes is:
OK, will do that (though what that will be is already there...)
| I think the standard only uses "command name" in the context of how
| the shell parses commands. The amended fc -e description in the
| standard should refer to editor as a "pathname".
I wasn't suggesting using that text literally, just for the kind of
think that might be done.
kre
ps: I am not here expecting that the wording I suggest for PATH should
be adopted unchanged (though as I am personally adding so few words
this one probably has a better chance than most) - fixing any wording
I produce is always OK. Getting the conceptual ideas right is what
matters most to me, not how that's expressed.
