On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 06:12:10PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > * The current history file format can't support multiline commands > stored as a single entry. Don't know what the proper way to handle > this is.
one way i think would be to treat: begin foo end and begin; foo; end as equivalent, so that in the historyfile they are stored as one line, but while editing they put you into multiline mode with linebreaks replacing the ; > Changing the format means changing the filenmae, or we'll get into > version clashes with older fishes. i have a discussion item that will force a filename change in anycase, for a completely different and unrelated reason. will bring it up in an extra mail. > Or maybe the history should work on a line-by-line level? hmm, while editing it would be nice to access old history entries within a multiline command. but browsing the history should keep the multiline blocks intact, because otherwise most of the advantage of multiline editing is lost. if you have a function, you want to be able to make changes to it. if history worked on a line by line level then you'd be forced to reassemble it, which can be some work and make it easy to mess up. 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
