Re: Another system management tool to disappear.
Hi.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:42:20 +0200
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le quartidi 14 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > > What are you talking about? The command to start the shell, or the key
> > > sequence to exit it?
> > Using su to change user.
>
> Then I do not agree with your statement that "machinectl shell" is less
> disability-friendly than su, quite the contrary.
>
> Two-letters commands are a scarce resource, there are only 676 of them
> (assuming you do not want to mix case), and much less of them that look or
> sound like something.
>
> "machinectl shell" is long to type, there is no doubt about, but at that
> cost, it does not pollute the command namespace: you do not type it by
> accident, it does not clutter completion. If you need it infrequently,
> typing all of it is negligible; if you need it frequently, you can use a
> shell alias to make it shorter: alias mcshell="machinectl shell"; if you
> need it very very frequently, you can even decide to give it a single letter
> alias. Entirely your choice.
Have you ever tried to dictate some commands over the phone (bonus
points are granted if the recipient does not know English)? In this
particular case, "more is less", and "less is more".
Reco
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