Re: "cno" keyword for config(8)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 7, 12:29am, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: "cno" keyword for config(8)

| SOunds like a good idea to me, it bugs me often that my "no xxx" stuff
| in config files keeps failing when someone deletes, or renames, xxx
| 
| But an alternative would be to just change "no" so that it doesn't fail
| when there is nothing to remove (make "no" effectively be "cno") - the
| effect (not having whatever it is) is achieved whether the "no" deletes
| it or whether it never existed in the first place.

Well, yes I thought about that and then to have a warning option to print the
ones that did not match so that we can see typos... What do people prefer?

christos