On 10/31/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:18:57AM +0100, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > As Philip said, this is not how fish should be behaving. If there are
> > no matches, pressing up or down should give you the original search
> > string. If not, that is a bug.
>
> if i edit a previously run command somewhere in the middle, then
> up-arrow turns everything before the cursor into a search string, and
> throws away the rest. no way to get it back that i have found.
>
> > Use either Alt-enter or backslash+enter to add a newline that doesn't
> > execute the command.
>
> alt-enter does some wierd xterm magic, very confusing.
> none -f the alt-keys work for me :-(

Alt-enter works in xterm for me, must be a configuration issue or
something. Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem like xterm or any other
comman terminal supports Control-enter or shift-enter. Hopefully the
autonewline magic will work out.

>
> could the backslash be made invisible once the line is added?
>
> > Currently it really isn't. Fish internally regards single line editing
> > as multiline editing on a short string, just as it regards non-array
> > variables as arrays with length one. There really is very little
> > modality in fish.
>
> ok.
> that does make sense.
>
> greetings, martin.
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Axel

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