hi, i just stumpled onto the following problem when trying to call an external program from vi:
in vi i simply selected arange of lines and did: :'<,'>!sort '<,'> is the lines to be sorted, and sort is the command. the command that vim then actually produces is the following: fish: Command substitutions not allowedIllegal command name #(sort)# Standard input: (sort) < /tmp/v744983/1 >/tmp/v744983/2 now this is cearly not a bug in fish, it is arguably one in vim. and it is surely a difference of expectations, because vim assumed to have a posix shell here. and this is probably one of the reasons why everyone insists so much on posix compatibility for shells. the question for me is: how can fish handle this situation which could come up in any place where the default shell of the user is used, but is expected to be posix. should a bugreport to vim be sent? might help in the long run, but won't do any good inthe short run. can the user be educated about the problem? "this error happened because fish was called from another program which most like assumed to be a posix shell. you need to fix that program and tell it not to call fish but a posix shell" for this, can the calling program be detected by name? ie can fish figure out that it was called by vim and respond with the right instructions how to configure vim? at least a set of instructions for all kinds of programs might need to be assembled. should the problem be handled transparently? ie: take the failing commandline and feed it to /bin/sh and return the result more ideas? 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
