#288610 gpm: improve command line handling (inconsistent)

Package:
gpm
Source:
gpm
Description:
General Purpose Mouse interface
Submitter:
Jari
Date:
2021-09-22 04:43:35 UTC
Severity:
minor
#288610#5
Date:
2005-01-04 16:30:37 UTC
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To:
Gpm accepts options 90 % of the tim in standard format "-OPTION
PARAM", but following options are inconsistent in their usage compared
to other options:

       -A[limit]
       -Rname Causes `gpm' to act as a repeater: any mouse data received while
       -Vverbosity increment

Please improve options handling by allowing same handling for every option.
That is:

	-A [limit]
	-R name
	-V verbosity
#288610#10
Date:
2005-01-05 08:09:55 UTC
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To:
[Jari]

  -A means the same as -A0
  -R means the same as -Rmsc
  -V means the same as -V1

I hate this convention for the same reason you do: it causes confusion.
I don't like it in "perl -i" and I don't like it here.  However,
changing anything risks breaking an append= line somewhere.  And
there's the small matter of being command-line-compatible with upstream
(read: Least Surprise for new users from other distributions).

It would almost be possible to detect whether the following parameter
looks like its own argument or appears to belong to the -A/-R/-V.
However, there is no way to disambiguate the case of "-V -2".

Thanks for the report,
Peter
#288610#15
Date:
2021-09-22 04:26:15 UTC
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