Pushing mighty close to my trivial suggestion quota, I'll add one more. Currently, a command name at the command line appears red until it is complete. Would it be more useful to color incomplete commands black?
In other words, fish> ca would be black, because there are commands that start with 'ca'. Adding 'x', fish> cax would color it all red, since no command starts with 'cax'. Replacing 'x' with 't', fish> cat would color it all green. This would complement the auto-suggestion feature we discussed: if you type fish> ec fish would add 'ho' in cyan, fish> echo since echo is the only possible completion. The cursor is still on 'h'; you can type <Tab> to complete (which would move the cursor past 'o' and color 'echo' green) or type 'h' (which would move the cursor on 'o' and color 'h' black). One difficulty with this is that we are running out of colors, since there is no way to write black-on-white or black-on-cyan, right? I'm not convinced those are major usability improvements, but I think they would be. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
