Hi Guillaume

I'm sorry for not replying to your email sooner, but I've been more or
less computerless and very busy the last week and a half. I am trying
to catch up to my mail now.

On 3/3/07, Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First let me introduce myself shortly: I use MacOSX at home, Ubuntu Linux
> at work, and gladly switched completly from tcsh to fish a few months ago!
> :) (I have not converted all my csh aliases yet, as fish can mostly read
> them, but still...)
> I did not like bash (bloated IMHO), despised zsh (too much to configure,
> too arcane) so settled for tcsh, but it somehow lacked and looked
> basically not maintained anymore...
> Then I discovered fish, and boy I was happy: all my unspoken shell rants
> were magically adressed! :D Nice that someone finally decided to Do It
> Right, and that it has not to be me, if I ever could! ;)

Thank you!

> But enough babbling, back to bugs! ;P
>
>
[Removed bug reports that are updated in a later mail]
> Alt-P should IMHO:
> * use a `pager` command instead of `less` that would:
> ** use the "PAGER" environment variable if not empty
> ** else perhaps (may be a bit too Debian-specific) use /usr/bin/pager if
> not empty
> ** else use `less` (GNU)
> ** else use `more` (POSIX systems must have it IIRC)
>
> Alt-P on an empty line may instead print "pager "[cursor] to be more useful.

Good point. I'll add that to the todo list. Patches are welcome!

>
>
> In ~/.config/fish/fish_inputrc: is it possible to use a variable to
> include the installed fish_inputrc instead of hardcoding its path?!? Else
> I cannot use the same fish config everywhere...

I am currently considering completely dropping the inputrc parser and
using regular shellscript to configure key bindings. Doing so would
remove this problem.

> Also (if it does not make the shell core more complex) completing
> "file://" URLs just like Unix paths would be extra-nice!

Very good idea. To the todo list.

-- 
Axel

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