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[Jonathan Marsden <819038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Where is the config file format documented in the clicompanion source
tree?  Should a section be added to the man page documenting it?

On a related note: why does data/clicompanion2.config use ? for each
parameter to be prompted for, but .clicompanion in the same source tree
uses @ for the same purpose?  Consistency would be nice.  Again, where
is this aspect of the file format documented?  What happens if those
characters should appear verbatim in a command in the library -- can
they be escaped somehow?

How do people who already have customized command libraries from the
earlier versions upgrade -- does this fix include automated conversion
to the new file format?

In general, is using any single USASCII character as a field delimiter
really appropriate?  All ASCII characters are possible in command lines
that people may want to add to clicompanion, so just picking a different
one does not fully solve the underlying issue, does it?  I suspect ut
just makes a different set of commands impossible to store.

A more comprehensive fix may be to use a "real database" (sqlite
perhaps?) to store this information.  This could also allow future
enhancements to tag each command entry with which packages it needs,
which version of which distribution it works on, etc.

Overall, just changing from : to tab as the field delimiter does not
look to me like a full solution to the underlying issue.

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Title:
  if the command has ":" character, the command gets broken into two

Status in CLI Companion:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I tried to record this

  command.....:     sshfs xnatty@192.168.1.5:/home/xnatty  ~/xnatty
  User input....: 
  Description..:    this command mounts the remote computer

  Closed the program.... and reopened it.
  command was split into two at (:) character in the middle of the command. Second part was shown in User input field.
  so the new fields were as follows:

  command.....:     sshfs xnatty@192.168.1.5
  User input....:     /home/xnatty  ~/xnatty
  Description..:    :this command mounts the remote computer

  I think the program uses (:) as a separator character between columns of data..
  you may want to change it to some other (less used) character.
  for your info...

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