[m-rev.] for review: source-linking for mdb

[David Overton]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:27:46PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 26-Oct-2001, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > New commands added to mdb are 'source_window', which
> > opens a source-linked window if there is not one already open, and
> > 'source_window_close' which shuts any open source window.
> 
> Those command names are long and ugly,
> which is not good for interactive use.
> Something more concise would be much better.
> E.g. how about `edit' and `edit -c' (or `edit --close')?
> 
> Also IMHO there should be a single-character alias for the
> first command, e.g. `alias e edit'.

I don't think `edit' is a good name if the default command opens vim in
read-only mode.

Perhaps you could keep `source_window' and add `w' as an alias.

David
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