[Nano-devel] improving two long options

[Benno Schulenberg]

The idea of "long options" seems to be that they are kind of
self-documenting, that they describe very consicely and in
clear words what the option does.  For a long time already
two of the long options of nano have bothered me: --const
and --poslog.  What does "const" mean?  It is completely
unobvious.  Also, why use an abbreviation as a long option?
Long options can be abbreviated by the user as he/she wishes,
so the long option should be as long as needed and be much
more expressive, just like --smarthome, --nonewlines, and
--quickblank.  So... I would propose --constantshow and
--positionlog (to match --historylog).  Attached two patches
make those changes.

The old --const and 'set const' and --poslog and 'set poslog'
will continue to be recognized and acted upon, but only the
longer versions will be documented.  Any objections?

Benno

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CONSTANTSHOW.patch
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POSITIONLOG.patch
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