Re: [git-users] Feature request: -np (shorthand for --no-pager)

[Philip Oakley]

- Original Message - 
  From: Ashley Coolman 
  To: Git for human beings 
  Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 8:59 AM
  Subject: [git-users] Feature request: -np (shorthand for --no-pager)


  Would make sense, no?
As others have said, the single dash allows multiple single character options 
to be concatenated. the double-dash is used for options that take more than one 
character.

However you may be in luck with the ability to shorten long options to the 
minimum number of characters that makes the option unique. Try "--no-p", or 
"--no-pa", etc.  (this may depend on the comand that you apply it to...)

Philip

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Re: [git-users] Feature request: -np (shorthand for --no-pager)

[Dale R. Worley]

Ashley Coolman  writes:
> Would make sense, no?

Unfortunately, no.  The convention is that "--" is used to start long
options, which may have an optional value which is started with "=":

--[a-zA-Z0-0]+(=.*)?

Options that start with "-" use the long-established conventions for
single-letter options:  Each letter after the "-" is interpreted in turn
as an option name.  However, if an option is one that takes a value,
then the remainder of the argument is the option's value, or if there
are no further characters in the argument, the entire next argument is
the option's value.  Thus, "-np" means the same thing as "-n -p", while
"--np" specifies a single option.

The degree to which various packages follow these rules varies, but
they're generallly observed.  The Gnu utilities follow them quite
strictly.

Dale

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Re: [git-users] Feature request: -np (shorthand for --no-pager)

[Magnus Therning]

Ashley Coolman  writes:

> Would make sense, no?

It depends on whom you ask. I think quite a few people would argue that
short options, those with one hyphen, should consist of a single letter.
They would say that --np as shorthande for --no-pager would be better.

Personally I use command line completion to avoid having to type long
options ;)

/M

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[git-users] Feature request: -np (shorthand for --no-pager)

[Ashley Coolman]

Would make sense, no?

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