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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: more feature request reminders
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: more feature request reminders |
Date: |
22 Sep 2003 10:48:33 +0900 |
Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure I like the command alias thing. Would it not be better
> to have standard commands and perhaps an alias mechanism that people
> can use to plug in their own aliases?
It depends -- there are some aliases which are arguably silly and mere
historical detritus, but others usefully capture common preferences.
I think common/cmtrev is an example of the former, and that cmtrev
should eventually go away. However I think something like move/mv is in
fact useful -- it gives you one very-obvious name, and one name that
corresponds to the unix command, and so has mnemonic value for many
people (but crucially, not all).
> It seems to me that reducing the vocabulary we have to use when
> talking about tla would benefit us. For example, it was not obvious
> to me that default-tag does the same thing as explicit-default.
I think this is an example of a bad alias, but it doesn't follow that all
aliases are bad.
It's certainly on my personal todo list to try to stomp out some of the
sillier aliases.
-miles
--
"I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task."
--Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more feature request reminders, Miles Bader, 2003/09/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more feature request reminders, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more feature request reminders, Miles Bader, 2003/09/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more feature request reminders, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: more feature request reminders,
Miles Bader <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: more feature request reminders, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/21
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: more feature request reminders, Miles Bader, 2003/09/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] more feature request reminders, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/21