On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > I guess the only reason a builtin may be less discoverable than a > variable is that there are much fewer variables (and that other shells > use a variable).
are you talking about history? in bash it's a builtin. > > * Fish uses a 'random' builtin instead of a $RANDOM varaible as bash > > does, because it really is more a function than a variable yup, i agree, it's a lot better that way. > > * $history allows you to do neat things like array slicing because it > > is an array and fish has some pretty nice tools for manipulating > > arrays. is there a way to search for strings, wildcards or regular expressions? > Of course, it would be nicer if ``(history)[2 4]`` worked. that would be really neat... btw: quote from a friend who likes lisp a lot: fish and SBCL with linedit running side-by-side... I'm in tab-completion heaven (SBCL is steel banks common lisp) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
