On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 02:33 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > As long as the prefix substring is unique, gpg will accept a truncated > long-option. > > That is, the full option is --throw-keyids, but gpg will accept > --throw-keyid as an alias for it. > > It should also accept --throw-keyi and --throw-key and --throw-ke to > mean the same thing, but it doesn't due to a quirk of the source code > (i've just mailed a patch to gnupg-devel to fix that). > > Good documentation should always use the full option, to avoid ambiguity > with any potential future updates. I'd say the GNU privacy handbook > should be updated to use --throw-keyids instead of --throw-keyid.
Thanks for the clarification, and the prompt fixes. Appreciated! _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
