Open dannf opened 3 years ago
Wow...I never mentally went there (since I've been involved in this code for so long and lost perspective), but you are 1000% correct. These messages (and their equivalents in other parts of the docs) should definitely be updated to show their symmetry and fix that goofy wording. Thanks!
I've used
conserver
for over a decade and have found it incredibly useful. One tiny thing that has always bothered me is that it's difficult to tell from the help output that the^Eco
and^Ecd
are symmetric operations:While it's ingrained in my muscle memory now, I find new users tend to have a similar issue. Perhaps it'd be easier understand if the verbs were obviously symmetric -
down/up
,(re)open/close
or evendisconnect/connect
, and if the targets were bothconsole
or bothtty and log file
. One option, trying to retain as much of the mnemonics as possible: