Hi Paul, Thanks for your consideration. I understand your concern about causing confusion with set aliases. In that case I agree, create a new option instead.
Regards, Danie On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 23:01, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 10/1/21 1:30 PM, Danie de Jager wrote: > > Can we use the same options, but to trigger the longer annotation, we > > double the characters used to -hh and -HH? > > Interesting idea. Normally, later options override earlier, so 'df -h > -H' is equivalent to 'df -H'. This is so that one can alias 'df' to 'df > -h' and then type plain 'df' to get the same behavior as 'df -h', while > being able to type 'df -H' to get the other behavior. With that in mind > if we made the change you suggest, such an alias would mean that if you > typed 'df' you would get the behavior of ordinary 'df -h' while if you > typed 'df -h' you'd get the behavior of ordinary 'df -hh'. So there > might be an opportunity for confusion there. > > We could of course use a different option letter (unfortunately -B is > already taken...). >
