From: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xl: rename "list-vm" command to "vm-list"
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:28:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628072810.GA9080@US-SEA-R8XVZTX> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340866756.5210.9.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:59:16PM -0700, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 07:46 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > All of the other "list" verbs are of the form "$noun-list". For
> > example: "pci-list", "vcpu-list", "network-list", "block-list", etc.
> > Additionally, many people have well trained muscle memory from years
> > of typing "xm li". "xl li" was ambiguous due to "xl list-vm" resulted
> > in "command not implemented".
>
> Which did xm have list-vm or vm-list (or neither?)
Neither.
> Aside: I'd love for someone to implement (for 4.3) a better error
> message than "command not implemented". At the least printing out the
> list of clashing options, or even git style "Did you mean" when you make
> a typo.
That would definitely be nice to have.
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-28 6:46 [PATCH] xl: rename "list-vm" command to "vm-list" Matt Wilson
2012-06-28 6:59 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 7:28 ` Matt Wilson [this message]
2012-06-28 7:36 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 7:37 ` Matt Wilson
2012-06-28 7:41 ` Ian Campbell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-28 7:59 Matt Wilson
2012-06-28 8:35 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 15:08 ` Ian Jackson
2012-06-28 15:14 ` Ian Campbell
2012-06-28 16:18 ` Ian Jackson
2012-06-28 17:07 ` Matt Wilson
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