Matthew Miller wrote: > The service command has a syntax like this: > > service servicename action > > where as systemctl has a syntax like this: > > systemctl action servicename.service > > This is inconvienient for the common case where more than one action is > performed in sequence on the same service, since with the first ordering, > one just hits the up arrow, ctrl-w, and then types the new action (with > tab-completion). > > With the systemctl order, one must first skip back over the first word, > which due to the awesome emacsness of bash keybindings is more of a pain. > > I'm not saying that systemctl's syntax needs to be changed. I am saying, > however, that it's important to get the service command working with > systemctl so that people can use that instead.
I'm of two minds here. On the one hand it would be nice to preserve the long-standing syntax convention for the reason Matt described. But on the other hand, putting the verb before the object seems to mesh well with how the English language usually works. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
