On 9/17/06, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried today to implement in fish M-. (as in bash).  I also plain to
> add M-/ (as in emacs), C-t and M-t and some more...  I got it
> partially working but only partially and with ugly hacks.  Here are
> the features I miss:
>
> * Allow ``commandline -o CMD`` to tokenize CMD instead of current
> command line (saving, replacing, tokenizing and restoring amazingly
> does work but is too ugly).

Definitely. What does -o stand for, cOmmand? If so, I guess --command
should be the GNU-style name.

> * Expose the whole history in $history as recently discussed.

I did this in my internal tree. Observations:

* This makes the output of 'set' meaningless, since $history alone is
several screenfulls.
* The indexes for history items change all the time, making it hard to
keep track of history items.

In conclusion, a $history variable seems to me to be a solution that
is great on paper and a pain in practice. My way was bad and the bash
way is better. Unless someone has some good arguments, I'm going to
implement a history builtin like in bash.

> * Expose the history of command-line editing commands in
> $__fish_edit_history or something like that.  The motivation is
> commands like M-. that notice when they are used repeatedly.

A detailed suggestion of exactly how this should be exposed, and what
information is critical would be needed.

> * Add options to ``commandline`` for quering and moving the cursor position.

Definitely. How about using -C/--cursor-pos to set the commandline
buitlin in 'cursor-mode', so that 'commandline -C' will output the
cursor position, and 'commandline -C POS' will move the cursor to POS?

>
> --
> Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who can only read email on weekends.
>

-- 
Axel

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