Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > On 13/05/2023 00:07, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Also agree. I've never heard the word "squelch" outside of the git context, and >> I'm pretty sure my English vocabulary is not small. Multiple people have >> suggested "silent" and no one has suggested "squelch" (other than Junio). > Squelch is common in the right circles. > > It is the term for cutting out the static electricity based background > audio noise from radio receivers. Back in the day, it was an adjustable > dial, so anyone who used a radio (including ex-military and their > family) would be familiar with the term. Well, then we'd need to adopt something like --squelch=17, right? ;-) > > It's not so common nowadays because there is auto-squelch and auto > tuning on most receivers, but it's still part of the lexicon ;-) ... and then, finally, --squelch=auto ) And then it should still switch back to full output once input signal (size of diff?) exceeds specific margin. Thanks, -- Sergey Organov
