On Nov 7, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep, I'm in favor of removing all the --a* etc. it makes it uselessly
> ambiguous, and short options are a better means to abbreviate. And
> trying to support exact abbreviations, as is done in configure, is an
> additional tedious maintenance nightmare.
Agreed. But beware that this decision goes against the GNU Coding
Standards.
I guess we should have an m4sh (or m4sugar?) macro to expand:
m4_case_longopt([foo])
to
--foo | --fo | --f
and
m4_case_longoptarg([foo])
to
--foo=* | --fo=* | --f=*
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