[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              
      Cpu:  Unspecified           |  
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Comment(by martinl):

 Replying to [comment:23 glynn]:
 > Replying to [ticket:2409 martinl]:

 >  1. Compound words cannot have their components abbreviated
 individually, so "background" cannot be abbreviated to "bg". "back_ground"
 can be abbreviated to "background" or "bg", but looks ugly.

 thanks for useful comments, there are a lot of options which are
 abbreviated. Eg.

 {{{
 bgcolor Background color
 }}}

 Do we prefer to leave as it is or change to

 {{{
 background_color
 }}}

 ?

 Then it can be abbreviated to

 {{{
 bcolor
 }}}

 but not to

 {{{
 bgcolor
 }}}

 That would require to rename the option to

 {{{
 back_ground_color
 }}}

 which is ugly as Glynn already noted.

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