Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt AT phoenixsoftware DOT de> writes:

> My suggestions for improvement (and no, I don't understand the Bacula 
> source code nearly well enough to try and implement them myself) would be:
>
> 1. Extend the "help" command to accept a command name argument and
> list the keywords accepted by that command.
>
> 2. Enhance the command parser to accept abbreviations for keywords.
>
> 3. Modify the command parser to reject unknown keywords instead of 
> silently ignoring them.
>
> 4. Improve the manual by merging the "Alphabetical List of Console 
> Keywords" and "Alphabetical List of Console Commands" section into a 
> single list describing each command accepted by bconsole completely, 
> with all keywords it will accept.

I agree with all of this, but I'm afraid it will be easier to abandon
the current bconsole and to write a new one which separates code from
CLI handling and utilises GNU readline properly to do dynamic TAB
completion etc.

e.g., implementing suggestion 3 would need code to be added in lots of
places, since many (most?) functions do their own argument parsing.
-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)


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