Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:12:30 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <20020924221230.GL2009@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <p05111701b9b690600e72@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020924203449.42E932A7D6@canning.wemm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241338580.41579-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru> <p05111701b9b690600e72@[128.113.24.47]>
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--EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:03:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:49 AM +0400 9/25/02, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:39:55 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> This is silly.. the +POS syntax is probably one of the most commonly > >> used syntaxes for sort. > > > >Talk with POSIX people about it. +N is valid filename per POSIX, so > >old syntax can't be preserved. >=20 > What ever happened to the idea of using '--' to mean "all the following > arguments are files, even if they look like options"? >=20 > After all, every other option is also "a valid filename", so what is > so special about "+N"? >=20 > We can preserve anything we want to preserve, and document where our > sort command is different from posix. Maybe at some future time it > will be less painful to drop +N, but we will have enough pain with > release 5.0 that we don't need to add this incompatible change. >=20 > Just MO, of course. FWIW, I also agree. Furthermore, if you 'fix' sort, you should fix less also (and possibly othe= rs): [stijn@pcwin165] </var/db/pkg/webalizer-2.1.10_1> less +COMMENT=20 Missing filename ("less --help" for help) admittedly this is on -STABLE, but I don't think it's different on -CURRENT. And I know less is probably not in POSIX, but I'm thinking about consistenc= y. --Stijn --=20 "What if everything you see is more than what you see -- the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to anoth= er world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or = you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it real= ly is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." -- Shigeru Miyamoto --EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9kONOY3r/tLQmfWcRAsD7AKC0Jaf3tplb4nxxTgOb/WphJYHI3wCeMZpl Utd/MxdXJ3a+sfbB5//Qsjo= =OPpU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVcIhgQsEzAXu06J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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