You are quite right; it is very hack-ish. Also, I just introduced an arbitrary keyword into the print_hostsnames function. It's more of a tip than anything else.
On 3/17/07, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Jon Sangster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of my favourite things about fish is the intelligent tab > > completion. Today, when I was going to use ssh, I noticed that it does > > some neat tab-completion on hostnames. However there was a short lag > > when I hit tab and then a huge number of hostnames were shown. > > > > Then I realized that only the top of my /etc/hosts file is legit > > hosts, the bottom 99.9% are addresses that I am blocking using the > > hosts file I got from http://www.hostsfile.org/hosts.html. fish was > > using those for the tab completion as well (why wouldn't it). > > > > I did up a little fix for it. It is simple, but I figured that I would > > share it anyway, incase any of you are also using your hosts file in > > this way. > > > > First I added this line to my /etc/hosts file just about where the > > bad-hosts list starts: > > # fish-ignore-rest > > > > Then I modified my __fish_print_hostnames.fish file with this: > > ################# > > --- __fish_print_hostnames.fish.old 2007-03-15 00:23:00.000000000 -0300 > > +++ __fish_print_hostnames.fish 2007-03-15 00:21:47.000000000 -0300 > > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ > > > > # Print all hosts from /etc/hosts > > if test -f /etc/hosts > > - sed </etc/hosts -e 's/[0-9.]*\( \|\t\)*\(.*\)/\2/'|sed > > -e 's/\#.*//'|tr \t \n |grep -v '^$' > > + sed -n '1,/fish-ignore-rest/p' | sed </etc/hosts -e > > 's/[0-9.]*\( \|\t\)*\(.*\)/\2/'|sed -e 's/\#.*//'|tr \t \n |grep -v > > '^$' > > end > > # Print nfs servers from /etc/fstab > > if test -f /etc/fstab > > ################# > > > > Now the tab completion is much quicker and only uses my "real" hosts. > > Hi Jon, > > That's a nice script, but I personally feel that since using the hosts > file to magically block advertising is a bit of a hack, this shouldn't > really go into a base fish install. To me, this seems to be exactly > the kind of clever hack that should go into the fish wiki. If anyone > feels differently, please speak up. > > -- > 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
