a note on order of arguements to systemctl command

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 08/24/2010 03:53 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 24.08.10 14:59, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:
> 
>> The service command has a syntax like this:
>>
>>  service servicename action
>>
>> where as systemctl has a syntax like this:
>>
>>  systemctl action servicename.service
>>
>> This is inconvienient for the common case where more than one action is
>> performed in sequence on the same service, since with the first ordering,
>> one just hits the up arrow, ctrl-w, and then types the new action (with
>> tab-completion).
>>
>> With the systemctl order, one must first skip back over the first word,
>> which due to the awesome emacsness of bash keybindings is more of a pain.
>>
>> I'm not saying that systemctl's syntax needs to be changed. I am saying,
>> however, that it's important to get the service command working with
>> systemctl so that people can use that instead.
> 
> Interesting definition of "important".

FWIW, Lennart, I agree with him here. The smoother the transition we can
provide for existing admins, the better, and this is an obvious place
where we can do that.

~spot