Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Not always, the -f option would be implicit if the filenames are given > first. For example these 4 command lines would be OK: > > lyx UserGuide.lyx Intro.lyx -c 3 -dbg key > lyx UserGuide.lyx -c 3 -dbg key -f Intro.lyx > lyx -c 3 -dbg key -f UserGuide.lyx Intro.lyx > lyx UserGuide.lyx -c 3 -dbg key -f UserGuide.lyx -f Intro.lyx
Good. > But this one (which we allow presently) would not be OK: > > lyx -c 3 -dbg key UserGuide.lyx Intro.lyx > > This last syntax IMHO this is bug prone and contains an inherent > ambiguity. Why bug prone? Some of my own programs work well like this: Parse any potential options, and everything that is left aftre that must be a file name. Georg
