From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjuY-00034J-Nf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjuV-000338-Sp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjuQ-00032b-Kh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45769 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjuQ-00032Y-Fk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:42 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56013) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUjuQ-0002Z3-6O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUioM-00028L-Vb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:05:23 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUjuN-0003F9-Op for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:15:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:15:39 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090725161539.GF12326@thorin> References: <4F38CAFF-C240-46FC-84BA-D3B96872B3E3@gmail.com> <1248388931.2661.155.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1248388931.2661.155.camel@mj> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Alias cls as clear X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:15:48 -0000 On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:42:11PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 22:08 -0700, Joe Auricchio wrote: > > * commands/minicmd.c: Add clear as alias for cls. > > > > My background is in Unix, so 'clear' comes much more naturally to my > > fingers than 'cls'. But it's bad to clutter grub with too many commands. > > So I leave this to the maintainers: do we add both commands, only one, > > or > > neither? > > Let's have "clear" only, as it's more clear :-) Yes. And GNU systems are our main target, so consistency with them is usually preferrable. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."