hi, i discovered fish yesterday, and i found a few things that make me feel right at home
i very much like the idea of a much simpler reduced syntax. i never liked the sh syntax, because it seems so messy and complex. reading fish scripts feels so much easier because there are less syntax elements to learn. however i am not going to use fish for scripting, i prefer a real programming language for that, but still the focus on simplicity of the syntax is very appealing... for interactive use i am mostly interested in the tab completion support. although i am told that bash also has very good support for that, i have not found any packages providing tab support for as many programs as fish does. (completion on commandline options is a very nice idea) in general i am amazed that after all this time someone manages to come up with something innovative for the commandline. eg. the integration of the cut-buffer with X (and screen, as i have seen on the todo list) is a nice idea. (how about extending that to a generic universal buffer? you copy in one shell, and it is available for paste in any other shell (even without X or screen support)) btw, i was very happy to discover that the current ubuntu dapper already ships with fish 1.20.0. you may want to update that on your homepage. (note however that help does not work in that version, not sure if that is an ubuntu or debian problem, or something else) there are a few other issues which i'll discuss in a seperate mail (to have the proper subject) and i'll probably find more along the way, but if thos goes well i may stick with it. i sure hope so... 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 Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
