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 08:45:36 -0700

To: David Bremner, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Jani Nikula

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Jameson Graef Rollins

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...
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