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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 07:22:22AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote: > Just as -E supplements -e to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, > new -N and -P flags could be introduced as safe alternatives to -n and -p. > > That said, I suggest the backwards compatibility standards applied to one- > liners may be less strict than those for big programs, so perhaps -n and -p > could just change. I'd say that if there's one place where magic open is useful, it's with -n and -p. Considering that with one liners, you're typically in full control of what you type, including the command line arguments, I'm not sure whether just changing -n and -p, robbing the user of options, is the right way. When was the last time you couldn't write a -n/-p one liner, because one of the arguments you wanted to give would trigger magic open, and you didn't want that to happen? AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next