On Wednesday 19 December 2007 07:22:18 Patrick wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:43 -0800, Steve Edwards wrote: > > The old syntax was inconsistent -- "show manager command" vs "sip show > > channels" and just plain bad -- for example "sip reload" should have been > > "reload sip. > > I agree. Reload sip would be the logical thing. > > [snip] > > > Approach the command line like a noob. I want Asterisk to show me > > something so I'll start the command line with "show." I'm not quite sure > > what I'm doing, so I'll press <TAB> to see what I can show. Oh, "channel" > > looks like what I want. Hmm, too much. Maybe I should have qualified what > > kind of channel I'm looking for BEFORE the word "channel." > > That makes sense to me. It's also what I'm used to from working with > other equipment. > > > Here's a suggestion -- stop thinking like a parser and start thinking > > like a person :) > > > > Which makes more sense (at least in English)? > > > > 1) show black dogs -- show sip channels > > 2) black show dogs -- sip show channels > > 3) dogs black show -- channels sip show > > 4) show dogs black -- show channels sip > > 5) black dogs show -- sip channels show > > 6) dogs show black -- channels show sip > > Excellent example. I'll put my 0.2 cents on #1 :) > > > Is it too late to fix this for 1.6? > > I sincerely hope not. Your example shows that the CLI could use some > TLC. Let's hope the powers that be agree.
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11605 For everything that matches "category verb arguments", this translation will work fine. For things which don't, well, they needed to be fixed anyway. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users