On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Myrddin Emrys wrote: >> While it might be a good idea to create a 'second chance parsing' for >> help text, it's a large amount of work. > As was already discussed at least once, if we want to automatically offer hints to users from other shells, we want a system orthogonal to the normal parser. For starters, triggering hints by simple string search against the command should be enough (if needed we can extend it to
> I think the fish homepage would benefit from this approach: put a > prominent "Fish from other shells" link on the fish homepage that > links to the wiki (where we already have pages like BashToFish). > > [1] http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ > Agreed, that's why I wrote BashToFish in the first place ;-). I now updated it to mention "$status" and "and" and "or". I will also make a pass at `info bash` to see if I'm missing other important things (I can already think of a few, will add soon). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (I read email only on weekends) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
