On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi, > > Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > Given your confirmation that the behaviour itself is intended, I think > > > the "-only-proxies" option is definitely misnamed as it does not have > > > "tor" in its name anywhere and its current name suggests something > > > different than it does.. > > > > > > Regards, Axel > > > > The fact that this option is for tor is mentioned in the dialog box: > > Yes, it mentions tor there, but not much more. > > > "[X] Connect only via proxies or Socks (useful for tor)" > > and in the manual page: > > -only-proxies <0>/<1> > > (default 0) > > "1" causes that Links won't initiate any non-proxy connection. > > It is useful for anonymization with tor or similar networks. > > "useful for" doesn't say anywhere that it overrides the UA setting > unconditionally and something different that "only useful for tor" or > "only meant to be used for anonymizing proxies like tor". > > > Command line options should be small, I don't think it's necessary to > > extend the option name to be longer. > > What about "-only-tor"? or even "-use-tor". That would be even > shorter. (But yes, it probably suggests too much.) So what about > "-anon" or "-anonymize"? That'd hopefully be generic enough that > people read the man page for details. That could break existing users' scripts. I think it is not really needed to change that, there is just one bug report about that. Mikulas > IMHO at least the description should be extended and clarified to > avoid irritated bug reports like this. > > Regards, Axel
