#64 grid configure not consistent with other configure subcomman

[Brent B. Welch]

OriginalBugID: 2705 RFE
Version: 8.2
SubmitDate: '1999-09-10'
LastModified:
Severity: LOW
Status: UnAssn
Submitter: techsupp
OS: Other
Machine: NA

Name:
Clif Flynt

Comments:
One of the reasons I advocate Tcl over Perl is Tcl's internal
consistency. It irks me when I have
to go back to the man pages because a sub-command has slightly different
syntax for one command
compared to another.

DesiredBehavior:
The "grid configure" command should use arguments consistent with the
widget configure commands.
"grid configure master" should return a list of configuration options
(be synonymous with the
current "grid info", and "grid configure master -flag" should return the
current value for that
flag

[Donal K. Fellows]

This is a side-effect of the fact that [grid $master -opts] is equivalent to [grid configure $master -opts], and yes, it sucks. I don't know whether changing this will break any code though.
In any case, because of the above concern I've recategorized this as a feature request, since we certainly can't change this (and the [pack] command has the same properties) without potentially breaking existing code, hence making it something for a major version change...