On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 08:06, Martin Bähr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:31:43PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote: >> (A) fish should highlight unmatching wildcards in red as you type. >> If the command is going to fail, there is no reason to make you >> press Enter to discover this. >> >> (B) there should be an easy one-press way to quote the current wildcard. >> Maybe pressing TAB on an unmatched wildcard should quote it? > > a slight problem with this is that if the user expects a match, but the > match fails because of a typo, then it will be quoted, but since the > user didn't want quotes he or she has to go back to remove the quote and > correct the typo. > Right, that's the part where syntax highlight (A) helps - the user should see it in red before he presses TAB.
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