[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2409: last call for options keys consolidation

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#2409: last call for options keys consolidation
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 Reporter:  martinl               |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task                  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker               |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  Default               |     Version:  unspecified              
 Keywords:  standardized options  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
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Comment(by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:80 wenzeslaus]:

 > Perhaps we don't have to unabbreviate everything. It seems to me that
 there is no will to unabbreviate options for `g.region` or module names
 containing rast, vect or rast3d.

 FWIW, I would like to unabbreviate everything which could reasonably be
 unabbreviated (including raster and vector rather than rast and vect).
 Clearly, there are cases where this would be unreasonable (e.g. option
 names may contain acronyms which could expand to several words, some of
 which may be long compound words, or may themselves be acronyms).

 > I'm for explicit long descriptive option names but if it creates more
 issues then it solves (`3draster`) and if everybody would be using the
 shortened version all the time anyway (`rast`, ...), I prefer not to
 change them.

 Code should always use the full name. Abbreviations are intended for
 interactive use.

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