Hi Martin Thanks for the support, glad you like fish.
On 8/13/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... Fish contains ~6000 lines of shellscript, most of it in the completion system. So it's certainly possible to write non-trivial programs in fish, but I have to agree that e.g. Python or Ruby are much nicer languages for almost all types of scripting. > > 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)) It should be possible to do this using a simple universal variable. Worth considering. > > 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. Done. Thanks for pointing this out. > (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... Ideas, bug reports and comments are always welcome. > > 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/ -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
