Bravo, Memnon. THAT is language that human beings can understand. And thank you for making me learn such a useful feature of the ridiculous fish shell. I wouldn't be able to decrypt the terse wording without your help.
Note: I am a professional translator, paid to read-comprehend-translate-rewrite, and I swear I am not joking. -- Luciano ES >> ************************** On Mon, 13 May 2013 12:16:58 +0000 (UTC), Memnon Anon wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
