I vote for #1. Maybe its just because I've been doing this for quite a while, but I would think that most people who would be annoyed about not being able to put a ? in a description or something know how to use the ctrl-v escape like with a cisco. maybe it can be a config option?
set system online-help key-rebindings true ------------------ Aubrey Wells Senior Engineer Shelton | Johns Technology Group A Vyatta Ready Partner www.sheltonjohns.com On Jan 29, 2008, at 5:27 PM, An-Cheng Huang wrote: > Note also that if the '?' key is bound to auto-completion, the user > can still input the '?' character using the readline escape sequence > (i.e., in this case "Ctrl-v ?"). So basically it came down to a > choice between these: > > (1) Keep '?' key as help. To input a '?' character, prefix it with > "Ctrl-v". > (2) Use some other key sequence for help. A '?' character can be > entered directly. > > At that time, (2) was deemed more acceptable than (1), so we > currently have (2). > > An-Cheng > > An-Cheng Huang wrote: >> That was the first thing I tried when we started implementing the >> help system. The problem is when the user actually wants to input a >> '?' character, how do we rebind the '?' key back to the actual >> character? I also tried to rebind the key after seeing a quote >> (assuming '?' characters can only appear in quotes), etc., etc. In >> the end, this is a limitation in the readline library (which is >> used by bash for command line input). We _could_ change readline, I >> suppose, somewhere down the road. >> >> An-Cheng > > _______________________________________________ > Vyatta-users mailing list > Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com > http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users
