i like having the info summarized and shown before actually committing, but since the confirm prompt is [y/N], it means i have to hit 'y' before hitting enter. a smoother workflow would be where i could change the default prompt to [Y/n].
Post currently has a --no-confirm command line option which will skip the confirmation question at the end of posting if it is on the command line. The other side of making the default answer to the confirmation question Y is that it would be easy to confirm something you didn't mean to confirm. The other thing I could do though is to make bugz post behave more like traditional unix commands such as cp or rm. This would involve changing the option to something like -i or --interactive and skipping the confirmation question if the option is not on the command line. What do you think about doing this?
i know about --no-confirm, but it doesnt do what i want ... there would be no confirmation step, just a straight submit this is why i suggested a cmd line option so only people who wanted to flip y/N to Y/n would do so flipping the behavior via -i makes sense to me. pybugz would only prompt then on required information (product/component/etc...) and not do a confirm. you could have -i then take an optional argument to determine the default behavior: -i=y -i=n
I asked some people about this on IRC yesterday, and it seems that having the prompt be [Y/n] instead of [y/N] is preferred. I'll probably leave the --no-confirm option named the way it is since it is just a straight submit. What I'm thinking now is that I'll add an option which would switch the prompt to [y/N] if you want that. I'm also open to a suggestion for the name of this option. I thought about --confirm-no, but we have a --no-confirm option, so would that be confusing?
yes, having confirm-no and no-confirm would be confusing regardless of how you documented them in --help how about --default-reply ? it takes either y or n ...
--default-reply seems ambiguous to me (default reply to what?), so how about --default-confirm?
that's fine, doesnt matter much to me ;)
This is fixed in git. The option is --default-confirm. Thanks for the report. :-)
