shell: "select" command suddenly gone #10769
Description
Following up on the quick discussion on IRC.
So, a user which used both old and new shell would immediately notice the lack of "select" command in the new one. On IRC, I was told that it's not needed, and one can access all commands directly. I don't what was meant by that, but my interpretation is obvious - it would mean that knowing that there's "stats" command in "net" shell module, I can type "stats" and it would get executed.
Of course, it cannot work like that, because there could be "bt stats", etc. commands. So, I proceeded to check, and of course, "stats" doesn't work:
uart:~$ stats
stats: command not found
Instead, I need to type:
uart:~$ net stats
Interface 0x00424a20 (Ethernet) [0]
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Of course, it's alleviated by completion, but:
- Completion was there in the old shell too.
- It was possible to use "net stats" in the old shell too.
- But besides that, there was also "select <module>" command which allowed get rid of typing "net" altogether!
Of course, with possibility no.3 provided, users enjoyed it. And of course, they noticed the regression with the new shell, and submit tickets asking what's up.