Bug 864674

Summary:	RFE: add tab completion for match expressions in journalctl
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	johannbg, lnykryn, metherid, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin
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Description Matthew Miller 2012-10-09 22:10:27 UTC

This is a small user-interface request.

Right now, the filtering syntax for journalctl uses literal fields from systemd.journal-fields.

The filtering is handy, but it would be nice if the field names could also be lower case. Needing to switch to all-caps to type long field names is not as user friendly as it could be.

Tab completion would be awesome too.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2012-10-15 14:24:23 UTC

Hmm, so I think I am pretty much against transparently transposing these fields from lower-case to upper-case, as things on Unix are generally not done that way. i.e. file names are case-sensitive, env vars are, udev vars are, and so on and so on. I think it would be quite surprising if we added such an automatism to journalctl but nothing else.

If people can be bothered to care about case sensitivity for env vars I think it's not too much to ask to care about it for journal matches, too.

That said, tab completion definitely is a good thing. I'll take the liberty to relabel this bug report to ask for tab compeltion for journal matches.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2012-10-15 14:56:29 UTC

I can buy that rationale. Change to the RFE works for me.

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2012-10-19 00:49:07 UTC

Tab completin for journalctl matches is now implemented. Soon in F18

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-10-23 01:04:25 UTC

systemd-195-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-1.fc18

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-23 06:48:00 UTC

Package systemd-195-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16709/systemd-195-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-26 19:37:18 UTC

Package systemd-195-2.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-195-2.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16709/systemd-195-2.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 15:23:29 UTC

systemd-195-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.