On 01/03/2011 02:46 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com wrote on 01/03/2011 03:10:20 PM:
From: Paul Jenner <psj@familyjenner.co.uk> To: libvir-list@redhat.com Date: 01/03/2011 03:17 PM Subject: [libvirt] virsh help keywords vs. command prefixes Sent by: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com
Hi all.
From a quick play with virsh from the 0.8.7 pre-release, as an end user I wonder if it may be more intuitive for the new help keywords to match the virsh command prefixes where they exist. For example "help nwfilter" would tell me about nwfilter- commands. Some keywords follow the prefix convention (nodedev, secret, snapshot, pool) but some do not (interface vs. iface-, filter vs nwfilter-, network vs. net-, volume vs. vol-).
Minor observation and close to release but I thought I would send on feedback to see what people thought.
We could introduce the 'help nwfilter' etc. as alias to the existing one(s).
I've also got the (post-0.8.7) idea of teaching virsh how to do unambiguous prefix recognition; and it wouldn't be too hard to tweak it to recognize that if a prefix is ambiguous but all commands that share that prefix belong to a single category, then treat it as 'help category' instead. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org