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

[Stefan Rank]

on Thursday 2010-05-06 14:42 Benjamin Pierce said the following:
>> 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?

I can confirm that all GUI versions I have access to (Mac OS, Linux-GTK, 
Windows) do accept command line arguments.

(As Benjamin notes below, it's the binary that accepts arguments, not 
the .app on the Mac. There is generally no way to supply arguments other 
than filenames to a .app ... )

cheers,
stefan


PS: Since I use the GUI version regularly from the command-line, I would 
also vote against the idea recently added to TODO.txt in r444, i.e. I 
would prefer to *not* make the text-ui the default on the command-line.



>> 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...