On 10/11/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/9/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/9/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/8/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > How abot this. Write a comment with a time stamp before each command, > > > that begins with a signature like "fish command executed at " or > > > something like that. It would be easily parsable and documented. > > > Then perhaps the backslash escapes can be avoided. > > > > > > > If you did that, you'd have to somehow handle if the user writes out a > > comment with a timestamp inside a command. The only real solution I > [...] > > You can recognize such timestamp-comments and store them in modified > form, so that they are no longer recognized as timestamps. For > example, prepend a #. So the history would not contain exacly what > the user entered, but this true of all the other options, and this > version is much cleaner, I think. We will rewrite history, in the > name of the people.
We can either escape the '#' or the newline. Why is one better than the other? > > The second-best alternative is to store commands as single lines, as > someone suggested. When browsing history, blocks would always be > expanded to multiple lines; or you need to store which ones to be > expanded and which ones to stay as single lines. > > > A third possibility I've considered is to escape each command in the > > history, but that would severely reduce the greppability of the > > history file. > > Escape how? Regular backslash escapes. For example: echo 'first second…' #comment becomes echo \'first\nsecond\u2026\'\n\#comment Not very grep friendly, but easy enough to parse and understand. -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
