[jira] [Commented] (PIG-2994) Grunt shortcuts

["Prashant Kommireddi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Prashant Kommireddi commented on PIG-2994:
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Nice, I think this would be useful. Like you said backslash (with t,r,n) might be confused with the tab, newline delimiters. How about using a colon instead?
                
> Grunt shortcuts
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2994
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2994
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: grunt
>            Reporter: Prasanth J
>            Priority: Minor
>
> This feature is aimed at providing shortcuts for frequently used commands like illustrate, dump, explain, describe, quit, help etc. This feature is inspired from postgres(psql) shortcuts. I tried implementing a simple shortcut for quitting the grunt shell using \q with very minimal changes. I think this feature will help save many keystrokes for users. If this feature looks useful I can submit the current patch for review and go ahead with implementing the following shortcuts
> \i <alias> - illustrate
> \e <alias> - explain
> \de <alias> - describe
> \du <alias> - dump 
> \h - help
> This will also be useful to view information about tables/statistics stored in HCatalog similar to the way psql does. 
> \dt <alias> - display table
> \dm - display metadata
> etc..
> except \t, \r and \n delimiters we should be able to use all other characters as shortcuts. 
> Please let me know your thoughts.

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