On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:50:12PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote:
> >
> > *Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
> > | Since -width and friends are handled by xforms, I guess all we can
> > | do is to *add* -geometry.
> >
> > But it does not, so we replace it with -geometry
> > (how does GNU programs usually do this? --geometry and -g?)
> >
> > Lgb
> gv -geometry +0+80 from my .fvwm2rc file
> Garst
I hope this gets out. I launched mutt to look at it's instructions,
and it opened my mail and stored it whereever it does such things (not
in my regular inbox, it seems.
-geometry is one of the "canonical"options for xterm, so I assume we
should stay with this syntax.
Yes, it's odd; real unix (rather than GNU) stuff tends to have shorter
abbreviations, like -g (which perhaps we should support, too), and gnu
would (evilly) use --geometry.
But it looks liek the "correct" and "standard" way would be -geometry.
But then, in case I haven't brought it up, I dislike the gnu-style
options and info files, though not asl much as the lack of freedom
imposed by the GPL.
rick
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