Comment 5 for bug 819038

2011/11/20 Jonathan Marsden <email address hidden>

> Where is the config file format documented in the clicompanion source
> tree? Should a section be added to the man page documenting it?
>

Yes, that will be usefull for our users.

>
> On a related note: why does data/clicompanion2.config use ? for each
> parameter to be prompted for, but .clicompanion in the same source tree
> uses @ for the same purpose? Consistency would be nice. Again, where
> is this aspect of the file format documented? What happens if those
> characters should appear verbatim in a command in the library -- can
> they be escaped somehow?
>

I'm wrong, or .clicompanion is only for informationan purposes in trunk?

>
> How do people who already have customized command libraries from the
> earlier versions upgrade -- does this fix include automated conversion
> to the new file format?
>

Yes, conversion will be automatical.

>
> In general, is using any single USASCII character as a field delimiter
> really appropriate? All ASCII characters are possible in command lines
> that people may want to add to clicompanion, so just picking a different
> one does not fully solve the underlying issue, does it? I suspect ut
> just makes a different set of commands impossible to store.
>
> A more comprehensive fix may be to use a "real database" (sqlite
> perhaps?) to store this information. This could also allow future
> enhancements to tag each command entry with which packages it needs,
> which version of which distribution it works on, etc.
>

Yes, this is good idea and we should make database for 1.2 release.

>
> Overall, just changing from : to tab as the field delimiter does not
> look to me like a full solution to the underlying issue.
>

Your right. This is only quick fix.

>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819038
>
> Title:
> if the command has ":" character, the command gets broken into two
>
> Status in CLI Companion:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> I tried to record this
>
> command.....: sshfs xnatty@192.168.1.5:/home/xnatty ~/xnatty
> User input....:
> Description..: this command mounts the remote computer
>
> Closed the program.... and reopened it.
> command was split into two at (:) character in the middle of the command.
> Second part was shown in User input field.
> so the new fields were as follows:
>
> command.....: sshfs xnatty@192.168.1.5
> User input....: /home/xnatty ~/xnatty
> Description..: :this command mounts the remote computer
>
> I think the program uses (:) as a separator character between columns of
> data..
> you may want to change it to some other (less used) character.
> for your info...
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