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Re: "gv -watch" should be "gv --watch" in lilypond-2.10.33/vim/lilypond-
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: "gv -watch" should be "gv --watch" in lilypond-2.10.33/vim/lilypond-ftplugin.vim |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:20:57 -0800 |
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:32:18 +0100
"Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2008/1/19, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>
> > Since the modern version requires --watch, and newbies will have
> > modern versions by default in their new distros, I say we go with
> > --watch. Anybody who's still running slackware from 1998 is not a
> > newbie, so they'll be able to figure out how to modify this file
> > to suit their own needs.
>
> I know multi-letters argument are usually introduced with a double
> dash, so I guess this provides better compatibility. Besiodes, in a
> package I tried to check ( a Mandriva 2008 rpm), the man-page mentions
> [-]-watch
> ...which hardly makes sense :)
Surely that means that you can provide -watch or --watch. It's
possible that this is an intermediate version where the old
command was kept for compatibility.
Cheers,
- Graham