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.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <[email protected]>

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