[asterisk-dev] RFC: internal CLI changes

[Anton]

I have to disagree with you. Seems you have never woked much 
with CISCO or similar equipment CLI. Otherwise you would 
not argue. Don't reinvent the wheel. There is ony one con- 
according to the Luigi - it's not easy to implement it now 
in the current code.

On 19 November 2006 13:53, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:20:33PM -0800, Bob Atkins 
wrote:
> > Please let me 2nd, 3rd and 4th this request and add an
> > emphatic /please!/ Such a change would result in a
> > /_much_/ more efficienct CLI that functions in much the
> > same way that Cisco's IOS CLI works and that many of us
> > in the business are already very accustomed to.
>
> We had this discussion before. I'l just note that I agree
> with one of your assertions: this will result in a CLI
> that is more similar to the one of Cisco. However it will
> be a more confusing one for those who are not CLI
> masters.
>
> The current shell makes it easy to discover commands.
>
> BTW: what would you gain by saving tab presses? The con
> is that you can't easily be sure that the complition is
> the only one. So for efficient typing, just use tab-space
> instead of space and type as usual. Don't wait for the
> tab completion.