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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




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