Notes on VRP Config Guides

It's funny to see how Huawei VRP CLI tries to convince us that it's really-really not IOS CLI. And, sadly, it does that in a pretty inconvenient way.

F.ex. "display" instead of "show" and "undo" instead of "no". If shortcuts "di" and "un" won't work, I'll be mad... Hopefully they have command aliases so that I'd be able to customize the CLI in a more familiar way.

Though they have a feature of assigning commands to keyboard shortcuts. Smth like Ctrl-G for "display running-configuration" or Ctrl-T for "display route-table" (I don't remeber exactly, but you've caught the idea, eh?). Seems rather convenient. I don't remember such a thing in IOS. There are only a few shortcuts available (kind of 5 or 7), but nevertheless... Something like that could be of great help in CCIE lab, for example. I only hope that it's accessible in any context (or view, as VRP calls them).

Our pack of Huawei devices hopefully will be deployed in August. Let's wait... Currently reading lots of Config guides, product descriptions etc. Let's hope that they'll provide some gear for testing. I need some hands-on experience before diving into full-featured maintenance of a live network.