[PATCH 2 of 2 STABLE] mq: rename the --mq option to --queue

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 4 Mar 2010, at 23:30, Augie Fackler wrote:

> 
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
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>> On 4 Mar 2010, at 17:43, Brendan Cully wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thursday, 04 March 2010 at 13:38, Sune Foldager wrote:
>>>> On 04-03-2010 13:30, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 13:05, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
>>>>> <danchr at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> # HG changeset patch
>>>>>> # User Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen<danchr at gmail.com>
>>>>>> # Date 1267704180 -3600
>>>>>> # Node ID 1694d2b0e58b0e25d53bad25cd0ff817d6841e2b
>>>>>> # Parent  a65fff12883a4872ff0312ac29dc392164fc3468
>>>>>> mq: rename the --mq option to --queue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Long options should consist of proper words rather than
>>>>>> abbreviations. The translations have been updated to reflect this, as
>>>>>> doing so is trivial.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I prefer --mq.
>> 
>> Could you perhaps elaborate on the reasons why you prefer it?
>> 
>>>> Hmm.. I think I prefer --queue... or at least: I find --mq somewhat
>>>> silly (being so short).
>>> 
>>> I prefer --mq, and that's a bit part of it. I'd rather type --mq than
>>> -Q, because it lets me avoid a chord.
>> 
>> I'm sorry, but I don't understand? By chord, do you mean key press? There are actually *fewer* key presses in ‘-Q’, and the amount of different keys pressed is the same:
> 
> By chord he means multiple keys at once. Also, repeated keys are free.
> 
> I'm also +1 on --mq instead of -Q because it's significantly faster for me to type.

Actually, ‘--queue’ isn't all that much harder to type. I proposed the option some time ago, and it was my impression that there was opposition to using ‘-Q’. So I used ‘--queue’ instead — it's really not that bad. Occasionally, I type ‘--quue’ or something similar instead, but that's something I can live it :)

>> If people dislike the short option, shouldn't we fix *that* rather than working around it?
> 
> Likely no, since --mq is easy and fast to type, and short options are fairly expensive (only 26 lowercase ones, so they should really be reserved for non-poweruser features).

If I understand you correctly, you don't think short options with uppercase letters ‘count’?

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
danchr at gmail.com

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