[m-rev.] for review: make `--use-subdirs' the default

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-May-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Index: NEWS
> @@ -264,6 +265,10 @@
>    dependencies the command `mmc -f SOURCES' must be run, where `SOURCES'
>    is a list of the names of all of the source files.  If the names of the
>    source files all match the contained module names, `mmc -f' need not be run.
> +
> +* `--use-subdirs' is now the default.  With `--use-subdirs', intermediate
> +  files are generated in a `Mercury' subdirectory to avoid cluttering up
> +  the user's source directory.

I suggest you mention here that if you want the old behaviour,
you can use the `--no-use-subdirs' option.

> +++ doc/user_guide.texi	17 May 2002 09:04:52 -0000
> @@ -157,12 +157,8 @@
>  
>  The Mercury implementation uses a variety of intermediate files, which
>  are described below.  But all you really need to know is how to name
> -source files.  For historical reasons, the default behaviour is for
> -intermediate files to be created in the current directory, but if you
> -use the @samp{--use-subdirs} option to @samp{mmc} or @samp{mmake}, all
> - at findex --use-subdirs
> -these intermediate files will be created in a @file{Mercury}
> -subdirectory, where you can happily ignore them.
> +source files.  All of these intermediate files will be created in a
> + at file{Mercury} subdirectory, where you can happily ignore them.
>  Thus you may wish to skip the rest of this chapter.

I suggest s/All of these/By default, all of the/

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