Re: rm issue

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> So you propose that --interactive alone be equivalant to
> --interactive=always or -i, and that the long option for -I is
> --interactive=once.  Is it worth having a shorter spelling for the long
> option for -I?

No.  Those who want `short' can use -I.
Although --ask-once does sound nice, I want to keep things minimal,
in case we end up providing similar functionality for other commands,
where adding a long-named synonym might make an existing abbreviation
ambiguous -- --ask-once would do just that to cp --a(rchive).

> I'm kind of stumped for a good mneumonic, but maybe a
> different spelling would be helpful, such as --ask-once?  Once we decide
> that, I will be happy to resubmit, and add some tests as part of the
> resubmittal.