Re: -M options

[Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> About a year ago, we discussed the possibility of several builtins
> having the capability to display the state of things in the form of
> commands to set up that state.  I believe the consensus was
> favourable.  A couple of builtins, compctl and alias, now have that
> capability, in the form of their -L options.  -L can't be used for all
> the builtins, because it already has a different meaning to typeset, so
> I suggested that we use -M instead.
> 
> What does everyone now think of this idea?  I personally like it -- I
> use compctl -L quite a lot.  Can anyone think of a better option letter
> to use?  I'd like to know people's opinions on this matter.
> 
> A while ago I posted patches to implement this option in several
> builtins, but most of them didn't get into the baseline.  Richard,
> could you say why you didn't use them?  Was it simply a matter of
> avoiding adding new features, in preparation for the 3.0 release?
> 
> Zoltan, would you add this feature to the baseline, if I were to post
> updated patches?  (Some of the patches I posted will no longer apply,
> due to metafication changes.)

There was nothing wrong with the patches.  I was just avoiding
adding new features.

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