Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-24 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 3/8/07, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/07, Axel Liljencrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been very active in this discussion because of various real life issues, including the fact that I will present my licenthiate thesis tomorrow, but I am reading all entries

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-24 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 3/8/07, Martin Baehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:02:25PM -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote: It is an interesting idea to be able to say that you don't want the case to be changed. But using wildcards is not a good way to do this, because they make the expression more

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-08 Thread Martin Baehr
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:02:25PM -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote: It is an interesting idea to be able to say that you don't want the case to be changed. But using wildcards is not a good way to do this, because they make the expression more general, not more specific. One way to do it is to

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-08 Thread Myrddin Emrys
On 3/8/07, Martin Baehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's a good point. if one puts uppercase letters in there it's presumably done intentionally and getting the case changed on that would be irritating. Perhaps... but how often would it happen? Don't forget the scenario of why you are using

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-08 Thread Myrddin Emrys
Hmm. I should cut back on the ranting. A point I forgot though... I have no problem with only doing the case insensitive matching if there are no globs/regex. It really does complicate matters. If the code turns out to be easy however, then working with globs/regex would be a bonus.

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-08 Thread Martin Baehr
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:41:13PM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote: linux mv *.DOtab *.do stupid.doc, silly.doc, resume.doc, ... linux mv *.do Just because I use capital letters doesn't mean I am certain of the case I want... I don't know about you, but I don't press tab if I'm not expecting

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Stiglitz
On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Martin Baehr wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote: linux rm ab*tab Ab* Absolute.txt, Abstract.txt, Abrasive.txt... linux rm Ab* this is exactly what i am afraid of, because if i do not notice that the case chsnged and my

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-05 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 3/5/07, Myrddin Emrys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno. The fact that it displayed the text, and re-displayed the command line, is a pretty blunt stick indicating that there was no match. In particular, you'll see the list of matching files for the new match listed... if that doesn't send

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:55:24PM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote: I dunno. The fact that it displayed the text, and re-displayed the command line, is a pretty blunt stick indicating that there was no match. In particular, you'll see the list of matching files for the new match listed... if that

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-01 Thread Martin Bähr
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:04:54AM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: In cases when there is no single completion that will cover all cases, I as a user would expect the competing options (e.g. '*AB*cd' and '*ab*cd') to be presented as alternative completions. even if there is only a single