I can't handle these spaces and "…" fish uses to separate lines.  They 
make my command-lines all messed up when I copy/paste them.  And to add 
insult to injury, when I paste them into another fish shell and try to 
delete the extra characters so I can run the command, I accidentally 
delete too many, can't find a way to undo the deletion, so I delete 
everything.  Then I try pasting again, delete again, and a second time 
accidentally delete too much! (It's really hard to tell the pasted-in 
ellipses from the the fish-generated ones: only a small color 
difference.)  A third time I try again, find my paste-buffer different, 
and re-copy the original text, and try again.  Darn, I thought I knew 
what I was doing, but no, a third time I have yet again deleted too 
much!  Argh!  A character at a time, deleting!  Now reveals that many of 
what looked so much like spaces were actually a newline character!  Now 
this command-line looks weird with a word broken by ellipses but I think 
it's correct again...

But there was my semantic error in the original command, so I play 
around some more, and the next time I try to copy-paste a piece of fish 
command-line, it pretends I meant to press enter immediately, and gives 
me an error for the "command".

I have never seen a really friendly shell yet.  I'm not sure it's 
entirely possible without some cooperation of the terminal emulator, so 
as to behave properly within X.

-Isaac

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