Re: Verb-line arguments

• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:29:21 PDT
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  jesse montrose <jesse@spine.com>
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At 12:53 PM 7/23/96 PDT, Michael Smith wrote:
>What about verb-line arguments that are builtin, for instance running a verb
>with a -<argument> would do something different to the verb, for instance:
>
>-quite --> no text output
>-debug --> quicker than making it +d

Why not just write a :run verb to do that?  Instead of building it into the
server, that is.

e.g.

run -quiet -debug say hello

:run would grab it's flags, then eval the rest.
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