On 2010-08-02, Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right. There's no good convention for "end of list of arguments to an
> option". There's only a good convention for "end of variable argument
> list" ('--'), and since this is the closest thing...
And since there _is_ a convention that '--' ends the option list, it's
A Bad Thing(TM) to use it for something else. I think violating the
almost universal convention about what '--' means is a terrible idea,
but apparently we're now stuck with it.
The standard way to pass a list of filenames on a command line is to
do it indirectly by putting the filenames in a file, and passing that
filename. That seems to work fine for dozens (or hundreds) of other
programs, so I don't see any reason why mutt shouldn't follow that
convention.
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