"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> O.k. what about \s# ? Or something like that... Where \s is the good old
> fashioned way, and \s# is my new fandango way?
That's got a meaning already (any argument to \s is the file name to write).
I suppose that if you didn't mind making the command behave
non-orthogonally, you could have "\s" print line numbers while
"\s file" doesn't. Not sure if that's a good idea or not ...
regards, tom lane