On Jan 22, 2008 7:39 PM, Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Another idea: "message area": automatically display the helpful > messages while editing, below the edited command:
I had thought about this for a long time and suggested something like it maybe a year ago (can't find the email), but I have done nothing to implement it :-/ I think it would be very useful. The message area would display completions and messages like those you mentioned. It is normally say 2 lines long, but expands if you press Tab, like the pager does now. So you can see the command description of a single command, which you can't currently. And I think it was to allow completions to be selected with the cursor keys. Completions (messages?) can be printed to the terminal history, say by pressing End to reach the end of the completion list then pressing Tab. Maybe this can be implemented as a type of multi-line prompt, though I think messages should be below the cursor, clearly separate from the command history. Isaac Dupree wrote: > very nice idea! Just make sure, when implementing, not to decrease the > responsiveness speed of typing commands in the process of examining the > text and looking up documentation... too many systems that have tried to > be "smart" on my slow computer have done that to me... Perhaps implicit messages can be generated by a separate, low-priority process? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
