On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:52:19PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote: > It's obvious there's no convincing you that what you are asking for is > not only insanely dangerous, but also in violation of the expected > behavior of pretty much every CLI shell ever created. > > Also, fish absolutely does use history for suggestions.
sure, but not-the-highest-in-the-list or not-being-able-to put-it-as-the-first-category was the point. > > Also, if you think pressing ^F before you press <return> is "very > slooooow" then I think you have a highly distorted sense of how long > you spend typing each command and how fast you can press a simple > chord. Billy Joy used to brag about how much time he could save by not capitalising letters just by not hitting the <shift>. think about that for a second... are we good now? > Oh, and your attempted elitism (bragging about having used old-school > CLI commands and accusing me of not being a heavy terminal user) is > not only offensive, but also not in the slightest bit constructive. so was your comment about me just repeating a single command. so relax. but i like how you connect elitism with cli; good stuff. > Face it; if what you were suggesting really makes as much sense as you > think it does, then shells would be offering it as a default behavior. > Or do you think shell authors are not heavy terminal users as well? that's a logical fallacy but i can't bother to find it's name in english. just because bill gates (not wasting <shift> for that guy) was the author of _an_ operating system doesn't make him the *ultimate* authority on the subject of os's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
