Re: Re: USG Guideline 9

[yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

David Korn <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, I was suggesting that you could have an edit key that would
> convert the current line to posixly_correct.  it could reorder the
> options and insert -- on the line before the first argument if
> necessary.  The user would see the changes and could either hit
> return to send of else edit the line. For example,
>       ls * -l
> would become
>       ls -l -- *
>
> I am not recommending this, but it would be better than allowing
> unpredictable behavior.

The shell would need to do this based on program names as there are programs
like cdrecord that may need track specific options fefore the related tracks.

Jörg

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