From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:01:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] grep: long context options
Message-ID: <20110802010143.GL13795@ece.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4E36E0EC.1000508@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe_lsrfire.ath.cx> said (on 2011/08/01):
> Take long option names for -A (--after-context), -B (--before-context)
> and -C (--context) from GNU grep and add a similar long option name
> for -W (--function-context).

Why not just add --context=function? Then when I want --context=indent
to give context based on the indent-level, it is an intuitive extension
of the existing options. (Of course, --context=<number> would still do
exactly what it does now.)