On Thu, December 15, 2005 4:47 am, Philip Ganchev wrote: > Pushing mighty close to my trivial suggestion quota, I'll add one > more. Currently, a command name at the command line appears red until > it is complete. Would it be more useful to color incomplete commands > black? > > In other words, > > fish> ca > > would be black, because there are commands that start with 'ca'. Adding > 'x', > > fish> cax > > would color it all red, since no command starts with 'cax'. Replacing > 'x' with 't', > > fish> cat > > would color it all green. > > This would complement the auto-suggestion feature we discussed: if you > type > > fish> ec > > fish would add 'ho' in cyan, > > fish> echo > > since echo is the only possible completion. The cursor is still on > 'h'; you can type <Tab> to complete (which would move the cursor past > 'o' and color 'echo' green) or type 'h' (which would move the cursor > on 'o' and color 'h' black). One difficulty with this is that we are > running out of colors, since there is no way to write black-on-white > or black-on-cyan, right? > > I'm not convinced those are major usability improvements, but I think > they would be.
A lot of poteintial typos and non-existing commands are prefixes to valid commands. Like if you accidentally miss the d in 'command'. -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
