Re: Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value`

Subject: Re: Inconsistencies in handling command flags: `--flag=value` different than `--flag value`

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:28:42 -0300

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Jani Nikula

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@caltech.edu> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 29 2020, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> I guess I'm a bit leery of removing UI features that presumably at least
>> some people rely on. It's pretty upsetting to have sofware break one's
>> muscle memory.
>
> I dare say there are few people that have muscle memory for the notmuch
> command line (especially for notmuch show), and fewer that aren't
> themselves developers...

Yep. But those are the users I care the most about.

d
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