On May 31, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Pid wrote:

> On 31/05/2011 18:28, Matthew Sacks wrote:
>> 
>> On May 31, 2011, at 2:41 AM, Pid wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Tentative proposal #1: remove 'setdomain' and 'domains' commands,
>>> instead extending & reusing the 'cd' and 'ls' commands.
>> 
>> Hi Pid,
>> So you mean instead of:
>> 
>> setdomain SomeDomain
>> cd Foo
>> 
>> you would type
>> 
>> cd SomeDomain:Foo
>> 
>> or cd SomeDomain?
> 
> Yes.

+1 all for it.

> 
> 
>>> My reasoning is that we're asking people to do one thing, then another,
>>> it's currently not very intuitive.
>>> 
>>> Tentative proposal #2: when a command succeeds, we don't currently
>>> display much information - we should modify the prompt and display some
>>> output.
>>> 
>>> E.g. When a 'cd' succeeds, we could list the new items, rather than
>>> require someone to type 'ls'.
>> 
>> Before the prompt would dynamically update to show the navigation in the 
>> tree.
>> 
>> Currently:
>> prompt> cd SomeDomain:Foo:Bar
>> prompt> 
>> 
>> Ideally:
>> 
>> prompt> cd SomeDomain:Foo:Bar
>> SomeDomain:Foo:Bar> 
> 
> That would work.

Cool.

> 
> 
> p
> 
> 

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