feature suggestion

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

David Shaw napisał[a]/wrote/schrieb:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:52:17AM +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
> > David Shaw napisa?[a]/wrote/schrieb:
> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:46:00AM +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
> > > > dshaw wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Rather than adding a new option, why not just use --quiet?
> > > > 
> > > > because it doesn't do the expected thing?
> > > 
> > > No, I mean rather than adding a new '--terse' option, it is better to
> > > add the functionality you want to the existing '--quiet' option.  The
> > > option exists, but it doesn't (yet) do what you want.
> > 
> > I think it is a good idea.
> 
> It seems like a good idea to me as well, but I'm worried about what it
> will mean for various programs that call GnuPG.  The default GnuPG
> config for Mutt, for example, uses the --quiet option.  People may be
> surprised by a change there.
> 
> Of course, it's not a particularly big change...

For me it was mutt and elm that made me think of the feature. I have slight
doubts on a little counterintuitiveness of the functionaity, OTOH I think
now that making Yet Another commandline option is a bad idea.

Alex