Re: --only-match

[Miles Bader]

Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> writes:
> > My english writing skills are flaky but "--only-match" does not
> > sound right.  Sorry I do not have any better alternative.
> 
> Okay, how about "--matching-string"?

I think that's worse, in the sense that the option name gives me no good
sense what it actually does.  I don't think the extra verbosity of
`matching string' over `match' is useful.

I like Paul's suggestion, although some people might think it's odd to
use the --context option for such a special case.

Personally I'd suggest a slight variation on your original --
`--match-only': the `-only' suggests that the `normal' operation is to
use a superset of the match, and the only real operation that extends
the match in this way is output; this gives me, at least, something of
an intuition for what the option does.

-Miles
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