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| author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2020-01-07 23:08:45 +0100 |
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| committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2020-01-07 23:08:45 +0100 |
| commit | d3cef97ad38fb027262a905bd82e1d3d2549aec7 (patch) | |
| tree | 200c7c376af503ee826a50a8b812d1f0aceb316a /DOCS/man | |
| parent | 5b56be0e91a78565d51e69ef0df625f52c140820 (diff) | |
| download | mpv-d3cef97ad38fb027262a905bd82e1d3d2549aec7.tar.bz2 mpv-d3cef97ad38fb027262a905bd82e1d3d2549aec7.tar.xz | |
options: change option parsing when using a single dash
Addresses dumb things like accidentally overwriting a media file with
e.g. "mpv --log-file test.mkv" (when the user thought that --log-file
was a flag option, when it actually takes a filename). This example will
now print an error. It still works with "-log-file overwritten.mkv", but
prints a warning.
Not sure if I'm being too careful or not "radical" enough. In any case,
both the syntax that stops working and the syntax that produces a
warning now have been discouraged and were called legacy for almost a
decade.
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/mpv.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst index a014388877..676cd1897f 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Legacy option syntax -------------------- The ``--option=value`` syntax is not strictly enforced, and the alternative -legacy syntax ``-option value`` and ``--option value`` will also work. This is +legacy syntax ``-option value`` and ``-option=value`` will also work. This is mostly for compatibility with MPlayer. Using these should be avoided. Their semantics can change any time in the future. @@ -324,9 +324,15 @@ because ``--fs`` is a flag option that requires no parameter. If an option changes and its parameter becomes optional, then a command line using the alternative syntax will break. -Currently, the parser makes no difference whether an option starts with ``--`` -or a single ``-``. This might also change in the future, and ``--option value`` -might always interpret ``value`` as filename in order to reduce ambiguities. +Until mpv 0.31.0, there was no difference whether an option started with ``--`` +or a single ``-``. Newer mpv releases strictly expect that you pass the option +value after a ``=``. For example, before ``mpv --log-file f.txt`` would write +a log to ``f.txt``, but now this command line fails, as ``--log-file`` expects +an option value, and ``f.txt`` is simply considered a normal file to be played +(as in ``mpv f.txt``). + +The future plan is that ``-option value`` will not work anymore, and options +with a single ``-`` behave the same as ``--`` options. Escaping spaces and other special characters -------------------------------------------- |