[asterisk-users] Improving CLI Help - was [Re: 1.6.2 No "soft hangup"?]

[Olle E. Johansson]

> 
> Further to Steve Edward's comment, I think things would be more
> obvious if the help system was improved slightly, for instance:
> 
> If you were trying to figure out the commands dealing with peers, you
> would be able to type:
> *CLI> help peer
> No "peer" command found.  Possible alternatives:
>                iax2 show peer Show details on specific IAX peer
>               iax2 show peers List defined IAX peers
>                sip show peers List defined SIP peers
>                 sip show peer Show details on specific SIP peer
>          (and so on, maybe using the "[More]" option to help it be readable)
> 
> In this case, if I could use the "help" system to search on all
> occurrences of the word "hangup" in the available commands, I would
> probably have found it myself instead of bothering the list.

THat's a very good idea. Thank you! 

Now we need someone that codes it :-)

/O