[Bug 1453613] Re: the help message of the set_password subcommand of the qemu monitor isn't usable

[Peter Maydell]

I think the 'help' text in the monitor is only really intended as a
brief usage summary reminder (in particular "help" on its own prints the
concatenation of all the "help foo" command help, so having "help foo"
print a long bit of documentation makes "help" output look weird). The
full documentation of each command is in the QEMU documentation proper,
which is now at
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/monitor.html#commands and where
the 'set_password' documentation describes the behaviour more fully.

To make this work in general we'd have to somehow support rendering the
rST-format documentation that ends up in the manual as a user response
in the monitor, which feels like it would be tricky.

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Title:
  the help message of the set_password subcommand of the qemu monitor
  isn't usable

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  `help set_password` in qemu monitor prints `set_password protocol
  password action-if-connected -- set spice/vnc password` which doesn't
  allow to figure out how to use this subcommand.

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