On 4/24/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'echo %man\ ls' works. 'echo man %"man ls"' does not work with the > motivation that 'echo $"PWD"' doesn't work. Maybe they both should?
Perhaps. '$"PWD"' looks weird -- a variable name will never contain characters that need quoting. But the % construct does contain such characters. > > Also, I'm curious -- why did you decide to make "jobs" print a message > > when there are no jobs? I think it should print nothing. [...] > we have lost our modelessness, and therefore I see no great > crime in increasing the difference between interactive and script > output of 'jobs' if it makes sense. I agree. > [...] When running jobs in interactive mode, it makes at > least a bit of sense - I am generally untrusting when it comes to > computers. If I ask the computer something, and it gives me _nothing_ > in response, I'll have some sneaking suspicion that the computer > didn't understand what I asked it. I want the computer to explicitly > tell me 'I have nothing to say to you, now go away'. :-)) I guess this makes sense. Do you feel the same way about listing an empty directory or printing the value of a non-existent variable? I prefer (a bit) the computer to tell me nothing, in all those cases, including "jobs". This way I get the message (that there is nothing to say) more easily than having to read it. True, if I write a command that is syntactically valid but not semantically what I mean, then I will get no explicit mention. It's not a big deal for me either way. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
