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On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 6:46 PM Oodler 577 <oodler577@sdf-eu.org> wrote: > > If it's going to be equivalent to "-0777", which directly impacts the > record > separator, then "-R" is probably better. None of the mnemonics proposed to > fit > with "-g" are common parlance. It's also associated with creating > executables > containing extra-stuff for debuggers in gcc. That seems it could be > helpful at > some point for actual debugging, or at least seems a little dissonant for > cli > jockies. I don't find either of the suggestions particularly intuitive, so have no preference. Then again, the general move towards long opts would make it pretty easy to > do > something like "--record-separator|--slurp". So it seems to me that > supporting > long opts is probably the real "ask". > This would be fantastic, but though this could serve as one of several examples of its benefit, this would of course need to be its own RFC proposed by someone willing to implement it, which so far we don't have, and thus shouldn't hold up this or similar ideas. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next