[jboss-as7-dev] cli: default tab completion list

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

if the number of low level operations will be forever small then this sounds like a reasonable request - 
if not then exposing commonly used low-level operations as high-level commands or aliases sounds like
another way to solve this and keep it all consistent.

/max

On Oct 25, 2011, at 19:04, Brian Stansberry wrote:

> Note the suggestion is to prefix them with : so the text is what the 
> user would have to actually type. So they would be naturally segregated 
> in the list.
> 
> There are a number of low-level commands that are going to be routinely 
> used, :read-attribute, :read-resource etc. So people are going to be 
> conscious of low-level commands and IMO hiding them doesn't make much 
> sense.  Unless there is a high level command that does the same thing as 
> all the regularly used low level ones.
> 
> On 10/25/11 12:23 PM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>> WRT https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2243
>> Tab completion for operations should show low-level operations
>> 
>> Brian suggests to include operations in the list of commands shown by
>> the tab completion when the line is empty.
>> 
>> The original idea was to make an accent on the commands with the hope
>> that operations will be used only in special/advanced cases. Which is
>> still the direction to follow.
>> So, by default the cli is in the command completion mode.
>> Operation request completion is triggered by '/', './' or ':'.
>> 
>> This is actually consistent with the bash shell too, where by default
>> you get a list of commands, scripts are not included, you'd have to
>> start with './'. Although, './' is listed there before all the commands
>> as an option, which is not the case in the cli.
>> 
>> IMO, the current impl is cleaner.
>> 
>> Votes, suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alexey
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