Re: [RFC] Clean way to disable pager

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2007, 02:11 UTC
Message-ID: <fadhkv$amj$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzm0mvcz0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> writes:
>>> On Aug 19, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>
>>>> +    [-p|--paginate] [--no-pager]
>>>
>>>   I think that [-p|--[no-]paginate] would be more consistent with the
>>> way negatable options are normally specified.
>>
>> Disregard previously existing code, I'd vote for using an option set
>> like the following:
>>
>> --pager
>> --pager=less
>> --pager=cat
>> --no-pager
>>
>> "--paginate" is rather artificial in contrast.
> 
> ACK. I thought of naming the option --no-paginate, but I don't think
> that good english. --dont-paginate would be good english, but doesn't
> match the --[no-]whatever scheme.
> 
> Perhaps using David's proposal, and keeping the --paginate as a
> backward compatibility, deprecated switch is the way to go.

I like it too. ACK.

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