On 30/10/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used it on other systems, (Matlab?) and it is very annoying. > To bring up a 6-line command that was executed 5 commands ago, you > have to press the arrow 30 times, and either count or scrutinize every > time whether this is the line you want. > I see a simple solution: when the cursor was in the first line and you press Up, you should land you at the *first* line of the previous command, not the last. Similarly, Down should land you in the last line of the next command. This way, consecutive Up or Down presses will navigate the history one command at a time, while retaining the ability to one line at a time within a command. It gives you kind-of-modal functionality without really adding modes - the only state is the position of the cursor, which should be obvious enough.
The only price you pay is that switching directions while browsing the history still requires going through all the lines of a command (but Alt-< / Alt-> should solve it). -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (I read email only on weekends) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
