# HG changeset patch
# User Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com>
# Date 1342163174 -7200
# Node ID b1dc8fbebb48269523bd5786fd1a5c75fab75716
# Parent  f238fe91dc7f35703d0451ad9a7c01d6b6af009d
mx now handles unambiguous command prefixes (e.g. instead of 'mx eclipseinit' you can use 'mx ec')

diff -r f238fe91dc7f -r b1dc8fbebb48 mxtool/mx.py
--- a/mxtool/mx.py	Thu Jul 12 17:16:34 2012 +0200
+++ b/mxtool/mx.py	Fri Jul 13 09:06:14 2012 +0200
@@ -2420,7 +2420,13 @@
     command_args = commandAndArgs[1:]
 
     if not commands.has_key(command):
-        abort('mx: unknown command \'{0}\'\n{1}use "mx help" for more options'.format(command, _format_commands()))
+        hits = [c for c in commands.iterkeys() if c.startswith(command)]
+        if len(hits) == 1:
+            command = hits[0]
+        elif len(hits) == 0:
+            abort('mx: unknown command \'{0}\'\n{1}use "mx help" for more options'.format(command, _format_commands()))
+        else:
+            abort('mx: command \'{0}\' is ambiguous\n    {1}'.format(command, ' '.join(hits)))
 
     c, _ = commands[command][:2]
     def term_handler(signum, frame):