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.
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.
I can buy that rationale. Change to the RFE works for me.
Tab completin for journalctl matches is now implemented. Soon in F18
systemd-195-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-195-1.fc18
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).
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).
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.