[tahoe-dev] CLI mkdir inverse?

[Ben Hyde]

On May 5, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Brian Warner wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009 21:40:22 -0600
> "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zookog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If users had to cut and paste or back-tick-back-tick a cap onto the
>> command-line every time they wanted to access a directory, at least
>> they wouldn't mistakenly think that access was being stored somewhere
>> in Tahoe.
>
> I suspect that if users had to cut-and-paste a cap on every CLI  
> line, then
> nobody would ever use the CLI :-). I also think that teaching users  
> what an
> alias means is easier than trying to convince them to paste caps  
> into each
> command. Although the examples might be easier to follow if the  
> aliases were
> shaped differently than directory names.. I'm not sure the colon- 
> suffix is
> distinctive enough. Maybe a prefix? "$tahoe:" or something?
>
> cheers,
> -Brian (who uses aliases and the CLI all the time)

I heart aliases, and I look forward to robust privacy aware services I  
can
delegate the work of keeping my collections alive so I can turn GC on.

Any syntax innovations, ala $tahoe, need to tackle the issue raise
here <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/683>