[Unison-hackers] Command line arguments and OS X GUI

Benjamin Pierce bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu
Thu May 6 08:42:44 EDT 2010


> I'm going through minor things in my Unison todo stuff, and I just
> noticed a small note to say in the tutorial that (at least for OS X),
> the tutorial should be run in text mode. I just saw that we say "You
> can force the text interface even if graphical is the default by
> adding {\tt -ui text}.  The other command-line arguments to both
> versions are identical." Does this mean that the other GUI versions
> (windows and GTK) accept command line arguments?
> 
> If so, I would propose a footnote that says that at the moment, the OS
> X GUI does not accept any command line argument. Otherwise, I would
> remove the text that say that any GUI version accept these arguments.

Doesn't it?  For me, executing the "internal" binary like this

  ~/current/unison/trunk/src/uimacnew/build/Default/Unison.app/Contents/MacOS/Unison

accepts cl arguments just fine...

    - B




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