Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My suggestions for improvement (and no, I don't understand the Bacula > source code nearly well enough to try and implement them myself) would be: > > 1. Extend the "help" command to accept a command name argument and > list the keywords accepted by that command. > > 2. Enhance the command parser to accept abbreviations for keywords. > > 3. Modify the command parser to reject unknown keywords instead of > silently ignoring them. > > 4. Improve the manual by merging the "Alphabetical List of Console > Keywords" and "Alphabetical List of Console Commands" section into a > single list describing each command accepted by bconsole completely, > with all keywords it will accept.
I agree with all of this, but I'm afraid it will be easier to abandon the current bconsole and to write a new one which separates code from CLI handling and utilises GNU readline properly to do dynamic TAB completion etc. e.g., implementing suggestion 3 would need code to be added in lots of places, since many (most?) functions do their own argument parsing. -- regards, | Redpill _ Kjetil T. Homme | Linpro (_) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
