[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:175 wenzeslaus]:
 > If I understand correctly, we still want to use full option names for
 GRASS code (and perhaps documentation) and to advise it for user scripts.
 Indeed.

 The main issues I see with abbreviations are:

  1. Searching for use of an option name (grep, Ctrl+F, etc) will miss
 abbreviations.

  2. Abbreviations make code harder to understand for people who aren't
 fluent in English.

 > In this case it would be good to have a way to proof that the full
 option names are used, something like an environmental variable
 `GRASS_FULL_OPTION_NAMES` which would switch off the advanced
 word/character matching and `renamed_options` so that only full names
 would be considered as valid.

 r63765 generates a warning if GRASS_FULL_OPTION_NAMES is set (to anything)
 and the found string isn't an exact match for the given string.

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