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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:54:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patchv3 12/11] New options {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:07:09 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:48:05 -0800
> >> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> >> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> >>
> >> The nice thing about {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute is that
> >> they are clear.
> >
> > They aren't to me.  They might be clear _after_ you know what they
> > mean, exactly.  But then so would be every shorthand of them.
> 
> So then why not reduce them even more?

That could work, but hard to tell without seeing specific suggestions.