From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12527 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2013 21:48:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 12517 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2013 21:48:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ob0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f177.google.com) (209.85.214.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:48:06 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f177.google.com with SMTP id wc18so2130495obb.22 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:48:06 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=RtbH+BFDXb7RhNlv0t1CarLKGwOyWHDLCNPpyv6C1/o=; b=FPZP+77n235P74Ix6vv+59cLoDGTy736EMMMuhBSwGBTyZR06MMdQgg/xxHrrG/yST h4n7CJPaoUjJs7wmn+B4s6pclFne/+s06f9CbdUrN0X0NxnCMnUJnHzxg6NnJqmPkpBp Mo6sfcsqxvzH2vLRTvXuU3l51wlQH2Z4vZpzyjN71IkYUl2nLCIqnCkggKg+aFTl+/Q5 MHmfgzLuSr4m6Fmkj6t43NEaQm/k2ID2NsmDhnjmn8iSpB57J9JKZf/SLnQ2BJWj09bw 8iLkEb0GDGFa6LSl68NP5XyRTRZ71wDUFXqra74Rz9VJYudMwoKErlo1IUq7IZ1h6lZS LiQA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.22.68 with SMTP id b4mr4939531oef.111.1359582485919; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.73.72 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:48:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83obg6h1pf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130129221019.GA27463@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20130130074820.GA15998@host2.jankratochvil.net> <8338xiiodg.fsf@gnu.org> <83sj5ih6c4.fsf@gnu.org> <20130130185344.GA15502@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83obg6h1pf.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patchv3 12/11] New options {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute From: Doug Evans To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Jan Kratochvil , gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmFS32l808pMo9E6IgqoOIfdz8If3Me9KieMkagk7UKLwTGBvmtMLALPooH5dMjGSmZ8ZrJkYBOdTzOlw0bUBstsTImTPn9J9iART7SgFQYY2eJnx8OZJXHps4rykjSNIqIgcIpyoIebGbN1lL6Q3lkpafr6VlSi157VEZ2oLbnA2kpidbqcaIOcHFV5lDAZtn/J7/sv7Y8H1lgoRfAp+Xy7nDEgA== X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00731.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:53:44 +0100 >> From: Jan Kratochvil >> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:30:03 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:15:07 +0200 >> > > From: Eli Zaretskii >> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> > > >> > > > -set filename-display basename|relative|absolute >> > > > +set filename-display basename|relative|absolute|relative-with-system-absolute >> > > > + |basename-with-system-absolute >> > > >> > > Can't say I like these too-old names. >> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > I meant too-long, of course. >> >> I sure agree; just I did not find a better name. > > Neither did I. relative-absolute and basename-absolute, perhaps? The nice thing about {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute is that they are clear. It's not like these will be typed very often, and tab-completion can reduce a lot of that. I like the "long" names. What real problem is being solved by terse names? $0.02