On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:46:08PM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > It sounds like Chris is talking about cycling through the completions, > rather than about scrolling through the list.
yes, exactly. i started zsh to verify that. and hence my opinion, because i do not like it. > I have been thinking about this feature for a while and I think we > have discussed this on the Fish mailing list. You press Tab to see a > list of completions, then press tab repeatedliy to cycle through the > completions until you reach the desired completion, then press (say) > Enter (or Space?). The currently selected completion is filled into > the command. in zsh it is filled first, and if you don't like it you need to remove it. what you describe is better. > > i looked at zsh do see how this works, and i can't say i like it. > > for me the point of expansion isto find out what the item can be > > expanded to. very often, the expansion is _not_ what i want, and then i > > change the item until it matches what i am looking for. > Highlighting selections does not hamper your ability to do that. I'm > not sure exactly how Zsh does it, but it doesn't have to work exactly > like that. If you see that the list of completions does not contain > what you want, then do what you normally would: change the entered > command line. > > if the item gets expanded automaticly like in zsh then i would be forced > > to remove everything again if it is wrong, which is a lot more work. > No, you wouldn't be. The suggested completion should not be part of > the command line until you accept it. you seem to be talking about something else. i am not talking about highlighting but automatic expansion, which is what i thought chris was talking about: i mean: % ls *<tab> that automaticly replaces the contents of the commandline with the expansion. this is definetly not something i want. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
