Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1022331] Re: -cpu ? causes confusion when directory has 1-character length filenames

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 July 2012 20:44, Michael Tokarev <1022331@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
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