On 10/6/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 03:03:25AM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > The nice and friendly warning will tell them what happened,
>
> true.
> need to be sure they see the warning though.

Yes. And a small percentage will still miss it. So it should be
prominently mentioned in the documentation as well.

>
> might not happen if the first shell process is not interactive

True. Don't try the move unless in interactive mode.

>
> > and they can copy the files back.
>
> yeah, but the next start of fish will want to move them again, unless
> there is a switch to avoid that, at which point you are back to having a
> way for the user to tell fish wether to move or not. (only difference
> being that move is the default now)

The code snippet I wrote for in the last post would only attempt to
move the code once.

>
> > A sympathise, but I would argue that simply moving a file is not so
> > much mucking around as gently poking.
>
> ok.
>
> > If you can come up with a few more cases that are non-silly in your
> > eyes, feel free to run them by me. I have been known to change my mind
> > whenever there is a wind is blowing on the moon.
>
> i will.
> note that i am not trying to get you to change your mind, i am rather
> trying to help make sure that your decision is vetted against any
> possible counter arguments, which in this case might shed a bad light on
> fish if people get bitten. (so we better make sure that fish doesn't bite :-)
> i'll be perfectly happy if you manage to shoot down any case i come up with.

Sounds fine to me.

>
> greetings, martin.
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-- 
Axel

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