On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:06:59PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > I think a lot of the little in fish are like that - they're very > useful, but you don't notice them, because they're not 'showy'. They > simply take a way an annoyance. :-)
yup, though sometimes they are so well hidden that you believe the annoyance is still there by assumption. > I'm sure there are lots of situations where what you really need is a > simply overview of possible completions. The thing is, it's kind of > hard for the pager to know when this would make sense and when it > wouldn't. maybe with a different key (ctrl-tab if that works) that runs a function which starts the pager with a different commandline option. or inside the pager a key to switch modes (i am just brainstorming) > Few people know how primitive the terminal interface really is. i knew it was promitive, but reading those details is nice, thanks. > Shortcuts using the Alt key are usually handled by prepending the > regular character with an escape character. ah, those work... > > would not help. most window managers use alt for themselves. > > any alt-key combo does not work in my terminal. > Bummer. I'm open to suggestions. well, esc-space might be usable (maybe even better than alt because there is a larger distance and i don't have to deform my hand to have the thumb on space and a finger on alt. > > if you could shorten the pager by one line so that the commandline is > > always visible then going on typing would feel more natural > That should be possible. I'll test it and see how it works. thanks. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
