On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 19:11, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Beni,
>
> Thank you for your comments!
>
>> And don't forget:
>> 3) MULTI-LINE editing!
>
> As far as I know Bash supports multi-line editing as well. (see e.g.
> http://www.talug.org/events/20030709/cmdline_history.html)
Bash fakes it by saving multi-line commands in history as a single
line with semicolons ("for f in *; do mv $f $f~; done"). And when you
type them for the first time, entry is line-by-line - you can't go up
once you press Enter. So you just learn to always use semicolons.
This gets 90% functionality, but it's not nearly as pretty as fish :-).
Granted, that's less important.
I *am* interested in adding multi-line editing to readline because I'd
love to have it in Python (which has significant indentation, so
semicolon-faking is unworkable).
> And to be honest, even if Bash did not it, this would not be my top priority
> anyway. Why not use an editor to do multi-line editing!?
>
I'm talking about loops typed at the shell prompt. I'm not going to
fire an external editor in the middle of typing!
> Can I count you as a signer of the "coloring and underlining" feature request?
>
Sure. (But don't count me as a code contributor, I'm too swamped.)
--
Beni <[email protected]>
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