Enable listing of devices without list-devices subcommand #27
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In terms of keeping the CLI simple, I think avoiding subcommands may be a worthy goal. I find it really elegant when
labelle --help
prints a complete summary without needing to explore a tree of help of subcommands.Thus I'm offering this alternative proposal. Introducing a special
--device list
case. It's a bit of a hack, but I think it's a very practical hack: nobody will ever want to filter by the string"list"
. Also, when the user is trying to figure out what they can filter on, they'll be reading the annotation for--device
, and the info is provided there.It seems to me like this sacrifices some mildly ugly code to provide a more focused user interface. Thoughts?