Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:50:31 -0500
From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun@rogers.com>
To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org
Cc: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>, migo@homemail.com, gnu-arch-users@gnu.org,
        gnu-arch-dev@lists.seyza.com
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] [BUG] Rethinking add, delete and move commands
Message-ID: <20050208045031.GF6823@rogers.com>
References: <20050208004551.GA29063@ukato> <200502080125.RAA23011@emf.net> <fc339e4a05020718095265d43@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a05020718095265d43@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
Status: RO
Content-Length: 726
Lines: 16
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:09:52AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> The presence of "move" and "delete" clearly causes confusion for
> beginners, as they think that "mv" and "move" are synonyms (and "rm"
> and "delete"); given that people generally want to use "mv" and "rm"
> anyway, it seems quite silly to confuse them this way.

Of course they get confused, in fact one would _expect_ the confusion.
Aliases are more then expected in this context, and having "mv" and
"move" mean different things violates every conceivable design principle.

Delaying the rename just makes a bad problem worse. Let's just name
them properly, and the advanced users will know what to do. The vast
majority of users will be grateful.

-- 
Dimi.