On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I noticed that I can shorten the long switch --argument-names for a
> function as much as I want and it still works. I can use --argument or
> --arg or even --a. Of course I can also use the short form -a. Is this a
> general feature of fish or do only some commands support using abbreviated
> versions of long switch names as long as only one switch matches it?
>
It's a standard feature of GNU getopt_long(). From its man page:
The getopt_long() function works like getopt() except that it also
> accepts long options,
> started with two dashes. (If the program accepts only long
> options, then optstring should
> be specified as an empty string (""), not NULL.) Long option names
> may be abbreviated if
> the abbreviation is unique or is an exact match for some defined
> option. A long option
> may take a parameter, of the form --arg=param or --arg param.
--
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
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