On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Netocrat wrote:
> Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, James Antill wrote:
> >>Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>>I've come up with what I think is a good idea of what to do when the
> >>>user presses the enter key multiple times in fish. How about flashing
> >>>the screen? The user sees that the shell is alive without wasting
> >>>screen space.
> >>
> >> Well personally I use pressing enter to see how alive my ssh
> >>connections are (Ie. how fast the next line comes back). Flashing
> >>would be worse than the current behaviour from my POV.
> >
> > How is flashing worse than doing nothing?
>
> Probably it's better than nothing, but it's not intuitive whether the
> flash derives from the local shell or the remote shell, especially if
> the delay is small.
>
> Excuse this direct question but I don't understand where you're coming
> from and even after reviewing the thread(s) I haven't found an
> explanation: what exactly is your objection to scrolling on enter?
I simply don't want to waste screen real-estate. I sometimes press
the enter key to see if a running command is alive. If the
command is running, the output will scroll. Then, when the command
finishes, the screen will scroll again, because the command never
read the input, it was just echoed to the screen.
This whole issue has blown wasy out of proportion, though. I really
don't care that much, since people seem to really like scrolling
output, I'll probably end upp re-adding it, even if at least Philip
and I will find this a regression.
>
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Axel
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