On Nov 6, 2007 11:39 AM, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:09:41 +0200 > "Axel Liljencrantz" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Axel, > > it's my 1st post to the list and let me express my heartfelt "thank > you" for providing fish shell!
Thanks a lot! > > Since quite some time I'm doing simple taks to simplify my desktop > setup by using less, as well as more simple and powerful applications. > > Soon, after moving to xmonad WM, I gave another try to fish and now > it's my 'default-shell' and I wrote live-pkgbuild to be able to > regularly pull from the repo (using beloved darcs :-) > Very glad to hear it. > > Case insensitive completion > > > > The way this works is that if there are no case sensitive completions > > that match, case insensitive completions are usedas a fallback. If > > there is a case insensitive match, then the current argument is > > changed to match the case of the completion. All this happens > > automatically. There are situations where this is not ideal, but it > > seems to me to be the correct behaviour ~99 % of the time. > > Specifically, after using it for a long time, I have yet to have any > > realworld problems with it. > > It works nicely for me... > > > Multiline editing > > > > When editing a multiline command, the up and down keys move up and > > down in the command. When at the top line, up performs a history > > search, and the same with down on the bottom line. This makes keyboard > > navigation far easier on long commands. > > I must confess that before I started with fish, using bash was > 'minimalistic', ie. although being comfortable with cli, I really never > tried to enter multiline-commands in the shell directly, but yesterday > I was fascinated how fish depends on other specific tool (like expr) to > do the job, keeping the shell simple and powerful at the same time. > > Kudos for design! I hope this minimal design might even help you jump in and start hacking on fish a bit. I haven't been very good at email handling lately, but I would be happy to help. > > > Long commands > > > > When editing a very wide command, the prompt will jump to it's own > > line, so that you have the entire width of the screen at your disposal > > for editing your command. > > I had to tryout this one as well, and it is very nice. > > > Key bindings > > > > Key bindings no longer use the inputrc file format. Instead, they are > > done using a simple fish builtiin command. There was never any real > > benefit from using the inputrc format, since the functions you could > > bind to in fish are different from those in readline. The new system > > makes it very easy to change the bindings interactively from the > > shell. To bind Control-p to the pwd command, write: > > > > bind \cp pwd > > > > To bind Alt-h to change home directory to your home directory, type > > > > bind \eh cd > > > > Note how the regular escape sequences already supported by the shell > > are reused to provide the same functionality here. That means that if > > you learn once how to use fish escape sequences, you can reuse the > > same knowledge in other places. > > Didn't have need for the above, but it sounds cool. > > > If anybody has the time to perform some extra testing of fish to > > report bugs, I'd be grateful. I hope to release the new fish version > > within a week or two. > > So far, I did not encounter any bug although I was confused for some > time while my ssh-completion does not work, but the problem was solved > upon discovering that Arch package put HashKnownHosts option to 'yes' :-) > > All the best in further enhancing our beloved (fish) shell ;) Thank you for the testing and for the report. Axel > > Sincerely, > Gour > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
