On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 8 July 2012 20:44, Michael Tokarev <1022...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > > Please take this to your shell. The queston mark is a metacharacter for > > any *nix shell, you should just quote or backslash it. The same > > question mark is not special on windows. > > I think it's a legitimate complaint to say that this is not fantastically > friendly UI on QEMU's part though. (I've been bitten by it myself and > I've been dealing with Bourne shells for over a decade.), Picking a > string that requires metacharacter-quoting in the major shell most > people use is just a silly choice. > > I've thought before that we ought to make sure we have synonyms (eg 'help') > for all the list things that currently want '?'. Then we could mark '?' > as deprecated or present for back-compatibility only.
Or just introduce another character as an alternative to '?', eg '-' or even accept the string 'help' eg "-cpu help" Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|