Benoit Caccinolo <benoit.caccinolo@gmail.com>
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Here is a little patch to allow the usage of reduced commands for
example:

    twitter p "hello world"

to post a twit

Here is the patch : http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-twitter-gem/web/flexi_commands.patch

diff --git a/lib/twitter/command.rb b/lib/twitter/command.rb
index ea956f4..f0b6999 100644
--- a/lib/twitter/command.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter/command.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 module Twitter
   class Command
     @@commands  = [:post, :timeline, :friends, :friend, :followers, :follower, :featured, :important, :follow, :leave, :d]
-    
+    @@possible_commands = []
+
     @@template  = <<EOF
 # .twitter
 # 
@@ -22,7 +23,17 @@ EOF
         
         if !command.nil? && @@commands.include?(command.intern)
           send(command)
-        else
+        elsif @@possible_commands = @@commands.include_part_of?(command)
+            if @@possible_commands.size != 1
+                puts "\nUsage: twitter <command> [options]\n\nAvailable Commands:"
+                Twitter::Command.commands.each do |c|
+                    puts "    - #{c}"
+                end
+            else
+               send(@@possible_commands.first)
+            end
+
+        else 
           puts "\nUsage: twitter <command> [options]\n\nAvailable Commands:"
           Twitter::Command.commands.each do |c|
             puts "    - #{c}"
@@ -246,4 +257,4 @@ EOF
         end
     end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/lib/twitter/version.rb b/lib/twitter/version.rb
index 1b43e70..96049f7 100644
--- a/lib/twitter/version.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+class Array
+
+    def include_part_of?(entry)
+
+        possible_commands = []
+        self.each do |c|
+            r = c.to_s.match(/#{entry}.*/)
+                if !c.to_s.match(/^#{entry}.*/).nil?
+                    possible_commands << c
+                end
+        end
+
+        if possible_commands.empty?
+            return false
+        else
+            return possible_commands
+        end
+
+    end
+
+end
+
+
 module Twitter #:nodoc:
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 0