On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-08-02, Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Right. There's no good convention for "end of list of arguments to an
> > option". There's only a good convention for "end of variable argument
> > list" ('--'), and since this is the closest thing...
>
> And since there _is_ a convention that '--' ends the option list, it's
> A Bad Thing(TM) to use it for something else. I think violating the
> almost universal convention about what '--' means is a terrible idea,
> but apparently we're now stuck with it.
The convention is that '--' ends the entire option list, not a list of
arguments to a single option. Therefore mutt clearly uses something
other than the existing convention.
Nico
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