Format of command syntax is both confusing and greatly slows down speed of typing

[nus-pe-bot]

Details: The use of /, and ~ symbols for each different parameter makes typing the command out take much longer, and is hard to follow. For example, the example given in the UG is `add income 10000 commission /2023-01-23/ bonus* ~monthly~` Which for most users would be uncomfortable and tedious to type due to the multiple different symbols. Additionally, it is easy to mix up and use the wrong symbol for the parameters, which leads to invalid commands ot incorrectly entered commands, both of which take up the user's time to rectify.

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_{[original: nus-cs2113-AY2425S1/pe-interim#412] [original labels: type.FeatureFlaw severity.Low]}

[NigelYeoTW]

Team's Response

Dear tester,

The team has discussed and decided to categorize this bug as not in scope. The following are the justifications:

1. The characters are keyboard accessible normal special characters which should be of no issues to most fast typist to access. We feel that there could possibly be other implementation alternative but the increase in efficiency for these users should be marginal.

2. Our program guides the user on the correct format every time there is an invalid input for the command.

3. As per most user to new programs, they should face similar issues of forgetting the format of program commands, this included. We do not feel that this is an issue unique to our program. Thus we could possibly change the implementation but this is of a low priority and is postponed to after v2.1.

Duplicate status (if any):

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