On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:44:45PM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > Not sure that's a good idea. For example, when you are searching the > history, if you come across a multiline entry, you will be stuck.
not really. you only have to hit the arrow a few more times to get to the next entry. the current way is verry annoying, it makes me lose work, because i keep forgetting that i can not switch lines in multiline mode. i start writing, then i want to go back a line, and then oops, and my half written command is gone. bad. it would not be so bad if the half written command did not get lost. and maybe instead of the arrow keys some other keys can be provided to switch lines. in that same area: ctrl-a and ctrl-e should only move within one line. and essentially, all the editing features of a single line command should be available within a line of a multiline command. just today i wanted to build a look and within it reuse a command that i had used before. being able to activate a search at that point would have been ideal. and, while i am at it: <enter> should not execute the command unless you are at the end. otherwise it is not possible to add more lines to an old command without first going to the end, to remove something to make sure the command is incomplete, because the enter will run the command if it is complete. all arguments about modality aside: multiline editing already IS a different mode. 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
