On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:30:19AM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > Yep, Matlab makes reexecuting a multiline command a real chore. The > only conclusion that I can draw from this is that you sometimes want > to access the history on a line-by-line basis and sometimes on a block > basis. And no matter which one you pick, the grass will always be > greener on the other side.
very true. the more i'll use multiline commands them more i can see this becoming a problem. > One possibility is to use some special keyboard sequence to give you > an extra prompt. From this 'extra prompt' you can then search the > history and copy the right parts of it to the killring. Then you exit > the secondary prompt and yank the result into the primary prompts > command buffer. simply exiting the secondary prompt should automaticly insert what the line contains. (ie, it should just remove the prompt) the keys to change or add lines inside a multiline command could cause an exit. > I use auto-newlines in C, and I love it. Semicolons and brackets > automatically insert newlines at the right places. This might make > sense for fish too. yes, using ; and & to add a new line looks like something i could get used to 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
