P.S. the change below causes fish to ignore wildcards if they don't
expand. So even:
> mkdir destination
> scp somehost:somefile* dest*
works. Though I don't think you'd use it very often...
Michael
On 6 Apr 2010, at 18:39, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> On 6 Apr 2010, at 17:04, David Frascone wrote:
>
>>
>> Am I the only one who likes filename globbing, ONLY when it works?
>> One of my biggest annoyances with zsh was the default mode of
>> globbing everything. And, zsh almost has me trained to glob
>> properly with fish . . . almost.
>>
>> But, in zsh, there IS a way to turn it off -- is there in fish?
>
>
> I think that fish should know what to expand, and what not. Just like
> it should know what to complete and what not. Then, 'scp host:file* .'
> will not expand, and maybe even
> grep *file file.c
> I don't think the right way to decide is whether or not it matches a
> file.
>
> Anyway, it is easy to add something like zsh's behaviour to fish. In
> parser.c, just put the following:
>
> case EXPAND_WILDCARD_NO_MATCH:
> {
> if( getenv("FISH_NOGLOB")) {
> al_push( args, wcsdup(tok_last( tok ))) ;
> /* should this be al_push( args, tok_last( tok ) ) ? */
> } else {
> unmatched_wildcard = 1;
> if( !unmatched )
> {
> unmatched = halloc_wcsdup( j, tok_last( tok ));
> unmatched_pos = tok_get_pos( tok );
> }
> }
> break;
> }
>
> which checks the environment variable FISH_NOGLOB (needs to be set
> before fish starts).
> I started to figure out how to properly check a fish variable, when I
> saw the
>
> "Configurability is the root of all evil"
>
> entry in fish's documentation. To which I kind of agree. So, I don't
> think there is a right way to configure it. fish should just behave in
> this way, or not...
>
> Michael
>
> --
> 1434,1442c1434,1438
> <
> if( getenv("FISH_NOGLOB")) {
> <
> al_push( args, wcsdup(tok_last( tok ))) ;
> < } else {
> <
> unmatched_wildcard = 1;
> < if( !
> unmatched )
> < {
> <
>
> unmatched
> = halloc_wcsdup( j, tok_last( tok ));
> <
>
> unmatched_pos
> = tok_get_pos( tok );
> < }
> ---
>>
> unmatched_wildcard = 1;
>> if( !
> unmatched )
>> {
>>
> unmatched = halloc_wcsdup( j, tok_last( tok ));
>>
> unmatched_pos = tok_get_pos( tok );
> 1443a1440
>>
> --
>
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