On May 5, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Brian Warner wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 21:40:22 -0600 > "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If users had to cut and paste or back-tick-back-tick a cap onto the >> command-line every time they wanted to access a directory, at least >> they wouldn't mistakenly think that access was being stored somewhere >> in Tahoe. > > I suspect that if users had to cut-and-paste a cap on every CLI > line, then > nobody would ever use the CLI :-). I also think that teaching users > what an > alias means is easier than trying to convince them to paste caps > into each > command. Although the examples might be easier to follow if the > aliases were > shaped differently than directory names.. I'm not sure the colon- > suffix is > distinctive enough. Maybe a prefix? "$tahoe:" or something? > > cheers, > -Brian (who uses aliases and the CLI all the time)
I heart aliases, and I look forward to robust privacy aware services I can delegate the work of keeping my collections alive so I can turn GC on. Any syntax innovations, ala $tahoe, need to tackle the issue raise here <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/683> _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
