Tomi Ollila <tomi.oll...@iki.fi> writes: > On Tue, Apr 28 2020, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> >> One final way we could normalize everything and make it less >> idiosyncratic, with shorter, simpler man pages: deprecate and then drop >> the --booloption/--no-booloption mechanisms, requiring --booloption=true >> or --booloption=false instead. Once they're dropped, allow whitespace >> between "--booloption true" and "--booloption false" just like every >> other type of option. > > I must say, being it perhaps slightly inconvenient to the user, that > this is IMO the best option, and just allowing 'true' and 'false' > (case-sensitively). Least chance to work how used did not expected... >
I guess I'm a bit leery of removing UI features that presumably at least some people rely on. It's pretty upsetting to have sofware break one's muscle memory. d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
