This would not be a good idea. This would be very confusing... there would
be no easy to way to give feedback to the user why 'su' worked finding their
command one time, but when they tried to search for 'screen su - bob' it
failed.
One and two character searches are not very useful, but it's not that hard
to just type a couple more characters. It's not perfect, but it's better
than a search function which changes behavior arbitrarily.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:31, Abe Bachrach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was gonna ask another question on the fish mailing list, and it made me
> remember this one... after thinking about my desired behavior more, I think
> the ideal situation would be to have fish do the following:
>
> if there are 2 or less characters being searched for show the items that
> match the beginning of the line first
> if there are 3 or more characters, use the current default behavior...
>
> in matlab most of the time, what makes the feature great is that you can
> enter 1 character, and then hit the up arrow, which is often very fast.
> doing this in fish is pretty much useless since 1 character will likely
> match most any command.
>
> with 2 characters things are better but you can still get unwanted search
> results, and with 3 its somewhat unlikely that you'll get these spurious
> useless matches, so doing the full search with 3 characters might make
> sense.
>
> thanks!
> -=Abe
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2007 at 12:45 PM, Abe Bachrach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I think that would be useful, however if things get too complicated
>> with all the different cases that fish is trying to guess between, it
>> could make it feel inconsistent, which would be bad.
>>
>> My guess is that the easiest solution would be to add an option such
>> as alt+up similar to the ctrl+up which is currently used to tokenize
>> the search. Ideally this should be easily configurable so people could
>> set which their default behavior would be so that I could do the
>> matlab style search from the beginning, and chris could use search
>> anywhere :-)
>>
>> I do like the idea of giving higher priority to the commands which
>> match at the beginning though, and I definitely think there is some
>> room for a smart prioritization of search results such as ranking
>> them:
>> +add importance for being more recent
>> + add importance for matching the beginning of the input
>> - subtract importance for having many repeated commands match the same
>> part
>> etc...
>>
>> thanks for the response, and keep me posted! I would love to see this
>> feature/option get added to fish! :-)
>>
>> thanks,
>> -=Abe
>>
>> On Nov 5, 2007 9:32 PM, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:24:27PM -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > what about making it search the beginning first and and if it fails to
>> > find anything then look in the middle?
>> > unlikely to have a command that starts with -y or a filename.
>> >
>> > greetings, martin.
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>> >
>>
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