Re: check if message is in a particular sequence?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ken,

> Oh, no, the CONCEPT is fine, I just didn't love the name.  I like
> -range/-norange slightly better, but I still don't find it great.
> Something like -compress/-nocompress MIGHT be better, but again, I'm
> not loving it.
>
> I am only offering feedback on this because you asked for it.  Really,
> I think the important thing is to get the feature in there.  Any of
> the suggested names I could live with; just pick whatever you think is
> best.

Once it escapes into a release, it's hard to cull or replace.  :-)

I went for -range because it's controlling the printing as ‘lo-hi’ and
mh-sequence(5) already says things like

    A message range is specified as “name1-name2” or “name:n”, where
    `name', `name1' and `name2' are message names, and `n' is an
    integer.

    The “reserved” message name “all” is a shorthand for the message
    range “first-last”.

    Sequence File Format
        A contiguous range of messages can be represented as
        “lownum-highnum”.

It's nice to keep to as small a range of specialist vocabularly as
possible.  Some of the more confusing aspects of understanding something
new is when multiple terms refer to the same or overlapping thing.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.