Re: --sendsms "Nickname <number>"

 

I doubt it could use option --sendsms because of sanity checking, maybe
a separate option to allow it.. i dunno... 

On 27/11/2014 03:29, Raphaël Droz wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
> I'd really like to have a possibility to pass a "destination" in a more
> complex form than the current digit-only notation.
> 
> That would open the door to completion of --sendsms using the output of
> address managers.
> 
> But for this to work, gnokii must accept an argument which would not
> only be digit-only (ie: containing named "prefix")
> Although Gnokii would ignore it, it's need for the completion-process to
> work (since bash does not provide a distinction between what is
> "suggested" and what is actually "completed" on the command line)
> 
> In order to avoid complex parser-code and before writing an initial
> patch, I'd like to know what are your thoughts about that? What format
> should be accepted?
> 
> I'm thinking about:
> destination="whatever string <number>"
> Thus, if the first char of arg is not part of [0123456789+] then expect
> the destination to start after the first "<"
> Other form are possible, like:
> arg="whatever string: number"
> arg="whatever string@number"
> [it's up to the address manager to be flexible enough in order to output
> the desired form]
> 
> If --sendsms never allowed (and will never allow) sending emails
> (although most cellphone allows that), then using the first form
> (derived from the email notation) should be fine.
> 
> best regards
> 
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