Martin Bähr <mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> writes: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:04:27PM +1000, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: >> "By pressing Alt-up and Alt-down, a history search is also performed, >> but instead of searching for a complete commandline, each commandline is >> tokenized into separate elements just like it would be before execution, >> and each such token is matched against the token under the cursor when >> the search began." >> http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/index.html#editor >> >> The above excerpt reads like government bureaucratese! > > do you have a suggestion how to improve it?
What about: Pressing Alt-up and Alt-down performs a slightly different kind of history search. It will search and complete against each *token* in the history that matches whatever token is under the cursor when the search begins. So, given a previous command "cd /usr/share/doc" and cursor somewhere on the last item of the prompt (i.e. doc): "$ doc" + up completes to the command -> "$ cd /usr/share doc" "$ doc" + Alt-up completes to the token -> "$ /usr/share/doc". "$ cd doc" + Alt-up completes to -> "$cd /usr/share/doc". With a blank line, both kinds of completions behave the same way. Just a first suggestion, I am not a native speaker. Memnon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
