On 5/22/08, Peter Hercek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Kow wrote:
>> [cut]
>> Those are my personal desires anyway.
>> What do you think?  Sound like a plan?
>
> Ok, those are short term things and I like them and they
>   should be considered high priority.
> I (as a user) could add few more low priority wishes which
>   I did not notice in issue tracker. Not sure anybody else
>   beside me would be interested. The last one is probably
>   for something like darcs 3.0 :-D
>
> 1) Darcs help should mention the preferred commands in a
>     consistent way:
>
>     a) Use only non-abbreviated command aliases there (e.g.
>        move instead of mv).

Definitely not.  mv is the actual command name, and move is only an
alias, and that's the way it should stay.

>     b) Use only dash separated command names (for commands
>        which consist of more words or concatenated names,
>        add aliases where a corresponding counterpart is
>        missing).

Seems pointless to me.

>     c) List all aliases (or primary command names) in help
>        message for each command. E.g. help for "move" says
>        it is an alias for "mv", but help for "mv" does not
>        say it has an alias named "move".

No, the point of hidden aliases is that it doesn't add extra burden to
the documentation.  e.g. I didn't know of the move alias, and that was
great.

David
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