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

[Ralph Becket]

David Overton, Saturday, 27 October 2001:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:27:46PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Can I suggest `strace' - `s' for `source' - and `nostrace'?  Since it's
just a once-per session command, I'm not sure a shorter form is
necessary.

- Ralph
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