Bug 256984

Summary:	emerge options and actions leniency and improvement 2.2_rc23
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mick Reed aka ykill and petlab <ykill>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ykill
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Mick Reed aka ykill and petlab 2009-01-30 20:11:20 UTC

I suggest making cli options, and some actions more lenient.  I find myself typing the options

--skipfirst
--keep-going

daily because I emerge so much.  I noticed that emerge will accept --skip-first with the hyphen as well, even though it isn't documented.  That's great, imo there's no reason to beat ourselves up on memorization.  Following this line of reasoning, I suggest we continue this option leniency.  Can we also have:

--keepgoing  (to match --keep-going)
--no-spinner (to match --nospinner)
--completegraph (to match --complete-graph)
--listsets (to match --list-sets)

Small details to be sure, but let's get rid of any barriers that slow down devs and users!  Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge with a long option with the wrong hyphenation
2. example: emerge --no-spinner
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge: error: no such option: --no-spinner

Expected Results:  
same as --nospinner