Debian Bug report logs - #139865
w3m: Command line options: please be consistent

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Klaus Alexander Seistrup <bugs+debian@magnetic-ink.dk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3m: Command line options: please be consistent

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:34:21 +0100

Package: w3m
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: wishlist

An excerpt from "w3m -h":

    -dump_head       dump response of HEAD request into stdout
    -dump_source     dump page source into stdout
    -dump_both       dump HEAD and source into stdout
    -dump_extra      dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
    -no-proxy        don't use proxy
    -no-mouse        don't use mouse

I find the mixing of dashes and underscores confusing and counter-
intuitive.  Please use either dashes:

    -dump-head       dump response of HEAD request into stdout
    -dump-source     dump page source into stdout
    -dump-both       dump HEAD and source into stdout
    -dump-extra      dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
    -no-proxy        don't use proxy
    -no-mouse        don't use mouse

or underscores:

    -dump_head       dump response of HEAD request into stdout
    -dump_source     dump page source into stdout
    -dump_both       dump HEAD and source into stdout
    -dump_extra      dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout
    -no_proxy        don't use proxy
    -no_mouse        don't use mouse

and not a mixture of both.

Cheers,

  // Klaus

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hq.szn.dk 2.2.14 #14 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:22:01 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-3           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgc6                 1:6.0+6.1alpha4-2 Conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpmg1               1.19.6-12         General Purpose Mouse Library [lib
ii  libncurses5            5.2.20020112a-6   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.1.4-1         compression library - runtime

Message #10 received at 139865@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karsten Schoelzel <kuser@gmx.de>

To: 139865@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Patch: change -dump_* to -dump-*

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:20:41 +0200

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Patch to change command line arguments -dump_* to -dump-* to make the
interface consistent.

Karsten Schölzel

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Message #17 received at 139865@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org>

To: kuser@gmx.de, 139865@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#139865: Patch: change -dump_* to -dump-*

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:00:11 +0900 (JST)

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tags 139865 + wontfix
thanks

On April 29, 2006 at 3:20AM +0200,
kuser (at gmx.de) wrote:

> Patch to change command line arguments -dump_* to -dump-* to make the
> interface consistent.

The patch won't be applied because of compatibility.  The interface
change causes breakage of other programs, such as emacs-w3m.

Thanks,
--
Tatsuya Kinoshita

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Message #24 received at 139865@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org>

To: 139865@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#139865: Patch: change -dump_* to -dump-*

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:31 +0900 (JST)

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tags 139865 - patch
thanks

Untagging "patch" because of "wontfix".

Thanks,
--
Tatsuya Kinoshita

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Message #31 received at 139865-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: d+deb@vdr.jp

To: 104745-done@bugs.debian.org, 125662-done@bugs.debian.org, 139865-done@bugs.debian.org, 264652-done@bugs.debian.org, 358749-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing old wontfix wishlist

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:03:25 +0900

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closing old wontfix wishlist.
please reopen if still needed.
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Regards,
	dai

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