From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 21:23:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619F910656C9 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8378FC26 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id n55LNVV4027801 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:23:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id n55LNVQq027800 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:23:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:23:31 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090605212330.GA26775@saltmine.radix.net> References: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <20090605205507.GA19307@saltmine.radix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:23:33 -0000 --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--