On 8/26/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:45:09AM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > the only alternative right now is to have the prompt at the 'wrong > > place' if the command failed to add the trailing newline. Which, while > > still bad, would arguably be better. > > actually, i like the prompt in the wrong place, because it shows clearly > that the output of the command is broken, so when writing scripts i get > the: "ugh, this looks ugly, better add a newline" reaction, whereas > otherwise i might not notice and not bother and then wonder why others > are complaining (or worse, not complain but just think i write ugly > scripts) if i happen to share the script with someone else.
Ah, the idea that a small script/program bug should cause the shell to slightly break in a user visible way as a 'proportional response'. I'm not sure I agree with this idea, but I find comfort in knowing that some people would even consider it a feature... > > 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
