Bug 868582

Summary: RFE: virsh: extend send-key to allow sending multiple distinct keypresses
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
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Description Cole Robinson 2012-10-20 23:57:47 UTC
Came from this send-keys documentation bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860004

> Also from IRC, danpb suggested:
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> there probably ought to be a way to signify to virsh send-key to use separate > commands for a sequence
> eg, perhaps we could re-use/abuse --,
> virsh send-key -- 37 -- 18 -- 21

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-04-20 19:25:14 UTC
No one's really been confused by this since we fixed the docs... I think it's fine to just suggest multiple send-key calls here, but if someone showed up on the list with a patch I'm sure we would take it