LISP Command names and shortcuts

[guitarguy1685]

I'm posting here because I think this is more of a management questions than a lisp question.

 

My question is this;

 

if you have a suite of lisps, do you give the command names "shortcut" names or full descriptive names?

 

For example, I have a command that I call "COPYRADIAL". in my lisp that's what you use to call it.

 

(defun C:COPYRADIAL (/)...etc

 

Some people might just use

 

(defun c:CR (/)...etc

 

I don't use a shortcut because I don't want to inadvertently override a users personal pgp customizations, or an ACAD shortcut I just missed.

 

The only downside is some users are not savvy enough to figure out how to customize their shortcuts. (i know, i know).

 

How do you CAD managers approach this?

[BIGAL]

CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation or copy radial.

 

Just check acad.pgp 1st.

[Commandobill]

With autocad's autocomplete function, lately, I have had longer command names, since it's easy to use once you've typed them in a couple times.

[BIGAL]

You can use numbers also 47 is osmode 47.

[tricon77]

I have comprise a very long lisp file for all of my shortcuts.  I saw someone's code that use a ":" for a prefix to a command.  This idea made me group my sub-commands.  For me, I use colon followed by a thing to launch a text based menu to trigger other commands.  I just have one menu to focus on my workflow.  This way out can use long function names.  I took a class in OOP so my function are similar to that.  Also this way a user can create a function to call another function to just shorten the name.

[Pault43]

Same here, no shortcuts.  I name according to what it does, and the name is the command.  Most of the shortcuts I use are for specialized situations. I'm Civil so, I'm not continually using lsp's back to back to back.

[BIGAL]

If you have lots of lisps then why not have a custom menu. For Civ3D I made a custom menu that had CIV3D commands in it so when working in Drafting workspace those Civ3D commands were available. I also made a custom tool bar, it replaced the change surfaces via the Tool space as the icons were say display 0.5 Contours, turn off surface displays etc. Yes its available just ask.