Re: [tor-dev] Renaming arm

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org wrote:

1. It needs to be short. This is a terminal command so anything

lengthy is just begging people to alias it down.

Short commands are more likely to cause collisions and sometimes distribution maintainers are forced to rename them (leading to more confusion). CLI lovers tend to create their alias anyways.

2. It should be reasonably memorable. Sorry, no 'z62*'.

Since shell completion has been around for decades I find that completing commands like git-*, ssh-*, apt-*, dpkg-* is fast and also help reminding myself of commands that I don't use frequently. E.g. tor-relay-monitor can be easily discovered by tabbing around.

Bye