On Sat, 20.12.14 11:19, Dave Reisner (dreis...@archlinux.org) wrote: > Be nice to command line users and allow matching prefixes of verbs, > similar to the way getopt_long operates. If the prefix cannot be > resolved to a singular verb, log the ambiguity and return an error. > --- > I'm not thrilled about adding this to every manpage out of concern that it > might get out of sync, but I don't really see a better way.
Hmm, I am not sure I like the idea of this. I know that getopt works that way and that some tools (including "ip") do this, but I am not convinced it's really a great idea. I mean, we keep making changes to the list of supported verbs, adding new entries and such. If people make use of the abbreviations this could have the effect that later on some commands that used to work stop working since something that wasn't ambiguous become abiguous. I am all for allowing people to type less, but I think command line completion is the better answer to that... Moreover the abbreviated commands certainly don't help readability either... In fact due to all of this I'd rather go the other way and find a way to turn off this magic in getopt_long()... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
