On Tue, Apr 28 2020, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > One final way we could normalize everything and make it less > idiosyncratic, with shorter, simpler man pages: deprecate and then drop > the --booloption/--no-booloption mechanisms, requiring --booloption=true > or --booloption=false instead. Once they're dropped, allow whitespace > between "--booloption true" and "--booloption false" just like every > other type of option. I must say, being it perhaps slightly inconvenient to the user, that this is IMO the best option, and just allowing 'true' and 'false' (case-sensitively). Least chance to work how used did not expected... > in case it's not clear: I believe that "we have succinct and yet > complete man pages" is a convenient shorthand for "have we made this > command-line program behave in an understandable/usable way?" Sounds/looks like reasonable expectation... > > --dkg Tomi _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch