Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> [...]
> This is why I think the hints should be (a) matched orthogonally from
> the normal parser, and (b) displayed while editing.  (b) is more
> helpful, and safely tolerates false positives.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The transient display of messages will require much programming, but I
> think is very important.

quite agreed.

>>  I think it's better to avoid allowing the user to control the hints, though.
>>
> On second thoughts, I tend to agree.
> 
>> You are free to write one, but I don't think it's a good idea.  I
>> having a tutorial for something makes potential users feel overwhelmed
>> by the effort required to learn it.  If possible, we should make the
>> use of Fish in itself be an interactive tutorial, as you said.  This
>> is possible even without the complicated modifications you suggested
>> above.
>>
> Hmm, yes, you are probably right.

for people new to shell in general, a short summary to match 
GUI folder-navigation might be nice, e.g.
mv, cp, cd, '..', ls [-l].  Opening files is more of a 
nuisance, even though fish provides "open" function, if 
sometimes you instead want to open them in a shell-like way. 
  (and on my system at least, Ubuntu GNU/Linux, in shells 
other than fish, "open" means something quite confusingly 
different)

-I

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