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Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option
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Tim Waugh |
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Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:51:30 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> > The second option that I recommend is to deprecate this option
> > entirely and remove it from the code base. The longer it remains the
> > harder it will be to change to better behavior later. It is not
> > really useful as it stands today. (I am happy to see challenges to
> > that last statement.)
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I'm leaning toward deprecating (undocument and emit a warning)
> --reply=ANYTHING.
>
> Does anyone find the --reply=no option to be useful?
> The other two are equivalent to -i and -f.
Some Linux distributions have alias rm="rm -i" for root, and the way
to avoid the prompt then is --reply=yes. It's useful to have an
option that undoes the effect of '-i', IMHO.
Tim.
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- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, (continued)
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas Schwab, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/24
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Michael Stone, 2005/06/24
- Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option,
Tim Waugh <=
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Jim Meyering, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Tim Waugh, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, James Youngman, 2005/06/30
- Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/30
- Re: Bug#160849: coreutils: bug report for GNU Core Utils, Andreas Schwab, 2005/06/24