While I can see the advantage of the method you propose, consider an
alternative situation.
Let's say I've just run the same command a bunch of times with different
arguments, like this:
foo --bar --qux -t somefile1
foo --bar --qux -y somefile1
foo --bar --qux -y somefile2
except a bunch more times with the same command and more argument
variations.
Under your scheme, I'd type "foo" and then hit the up arrow a million
times looking for the line I want, whereas in fish, I just have to
remember one distinguishing *part* of the command, and it'll be
completed by hitting the up arrow.
Just saying that there's a trade-off either way you make the up-arrow
completion work.
- Chris Rebert
Abe Bachrach wrote:
> Hi all, first off I just started using fish, and so far like it a
> lot... I switched over looking for a shell that provided a search
> history like matlab, and at first was quite happy, however now that
> there are more entries in my search history, things aren't working so
> well, mainly because I need to type in more complete commands before I
> can start searching...
>
> basically, is there a way to make the search only search the BEGINNING
> of a line???
>
> for if I know that I have
>
> >echo blah
>
> 10 lines up in my command history, in matlab (and what I'd really like
> to be able to do) I can just type e, and then hit the up arrow, and it
> will go to it. However now in fish, it will match any command that has
> an e in it, which isn't very useful.
>
> this means that I have to type out several more letters, which is much
> slower.
>
> so any way to fix this???
>
> Simplest would just be an option to have searches start at the
> beginning of the string. Alternatively there could be a switch based
> on the number of characters entered, so if there are less than 2-3
> characters entered, you would search the beginning of the line, and
> other do the regular search.
>
> Let me know!
> THanks,
> -=Abe
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