Run short command without autocompletion

[illukin]

Hi!

I have a few commands, for example:

Root menu:
    - help
    - show

If I type h and press TAB I will get help and after that I can press ENTER and execute help command.
But I want just type h and after that press ENTER without press TAB button.

Is it possible to run short command if we can explicitly identify it?

It is useful when you should type long command, for example:
Instead of show interface eth0 status you can simply type s i eth0 s

[daniele77]

This is currently not feasible, and that would require new development.
Actually, I don't plan to introduce this feature soon.
However, you can manually add the commands "s", "I" recalling to the same handlers of "show" and "interface".

[illukin]

However, you can manually add the commands "s", "I" recalling to the same handlers of "show" and "interface".

Of course I can )
But the main idea of this feature is that you can type any unique sequence of symbols to explicitly identify a command (not only first symbol).

So you can type s or sh or sho or show and run show command.

This is currently not feasible, and that would require new development.

I understand.

[daniele77]

What I can do is check whether adding such a feature is a big effort and if it is worth it (in that case I can plan the development and open a GitHub issue.
Of course, PR are welcome :-)

[daniele77]

I checked the code. Unfortunately, the architecture does not support short commands.
It would be pretty challenging to add this feature because the check input == <cmd name> is performed inside the command object: unfortunately, the command has not the visibility of the other commands inside the menu, to check whether the other commands don't start with the same prefix.