On 12/26/06, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/26/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/20/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I just realized that if you start writing a command and press > > > Control+C, it is not saved in the history, unlike if you press > > > UpArrow. The same happens if you press Control+C after the command > > > starts executing. > > Does it? I can't reproduce this - if I press Ctrl-C immediately after > the command starts executing, it appears in the history. It would be > a very strange bug if it didn't. > > > That is the same as how other shells do it. I can see the use of > > adding semicompleted commands to the history, but it would also > > potentially cause a cluttered history. Another option would be to make > > ^C call kill-whole-line, e.g. add the contents to the killring. Does > > anybody else have an opinion on this? > > > It's very annoying the way it is. When I expect that I'll need the > command later, I've grown used to doing "Ctrl-A Ctrl-k" to kill the > whole line, but it when I don't and use Ctrl-c, I frequently regret it > later :-( > > I think adding to history is better than kill-whole-line by fish's > desing criteria: > * discoverabilty: people don't paste when they don't expect the > clipboard to contain something useful but they do browse through > history. > * modality: you don't have to refrain from cut-and-paste until you > recall the cancelled command. > Personally, I'd be just as happy with kill-whole-line.
I though briefly about this as well. Philip has already pointed out that the killring and the history overlap. I don't think this overlap is too bad today, since the scope of the killring is very limited and the way it functions is dictated by compatibility with other programs. But if the killring is further extended, this overlap becomes a problem. Ideas about how to best use ^C and how to make the existance of both (or a unification) as intuiotive as possible are welcome. > > -- > Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (I read email only on weekends) > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
