Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:23:31 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD Message-ID: <20090605212330.GA26775@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0906051411q454450e6kd8c83d9f3894c8c7@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906050950m53fda524i5652f57b1ac389ad@mail.gmail.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906051323s64a89fe2x134290524b633978@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906052249080.85149@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090605205507.GA19307@saltmine.radix.net> <b79ecaef0906051411q454450e6kd8c83d9f3894c8c7@mail.gmail.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:11:00PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: >=20 > The point I was trying to make (badly), was that long options are a > PITA to type. I don't believe it's any easier to learn the long names > for options than the short ones. Since you're typing huge amounts of > text quickly, you're more likely to make mistakes, and you'll probably > forget them anyway. One can have long options in a user-friendly way (some implementors choose to allow them to be abbreviated; some environments do name-completion). As I'm editing this remark, for example, I'm using a text editor that does name-completion (a good thing since it has several hundred commands, which can each be bound to a single character, etc). =20 --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFKKYzRtIqByHxlDocRAq1fAJ0b8x3xxNLNU4Mnnh1AZE4RSkCoowCeJ0Bt 1n81hiNeFxsMpP7XapTNPWc= =oAad -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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