Hi Raphael, On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 13:46 +0200, Raphaël Pinson wrote: > First, I think it could be nice to have completion in augtool on lens names > ;
Patches welcome ;) But I agree. > Then, when using retrieve, there's a few things I noticed: > > * It could be interesting to store the association information somewhere, > in the way it is done for file -> tree transformations. This way, the > <LENS> parameter would be optional and Augeas would automatically guess it ; > * the <TEXT> parameter is a bit confusing at first. I understood you have > to pass a string (any string actually) that is valid for the given lens, > say: > > augtool> retrieve Hosts.comment /my/comment "# a\n" The reason you have to pass in a string is because that is used as the template for spacing etc. I agree that passing in the original text a second time is annoying - that's why I wanted to change the API to take the input string from a tree node. As for the lens: is it really that cumbersome that you have to specify the lens you want to use ? To me, it makes it a little clearer what is happening. David _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
