This functionality was altered before the release of fish 2.0.0. Commit 6eb66770a49944 [1] makes completions non-authoritative by default. If you pass the `--authoritative` argument to your completions, the behaviour you describe will return. However, this is not enabled for completions shipped with fish because of the difficulty in maintaining parity between these completions and the upstream program.
With the next release of fish, a supported path for completions shipped by upstream vendors will be available; these can make use of the `--authoritative` option for even better syntax highlighting. Hope that helps! David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [1]: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/6eb66770a49944 On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Santhosh T wrote: > the article http://lwn.net/Articles/136232/ says that > fish shell can show misspelled options as errors. > > it has a screenshot also where "--colour" is highlighted in red in "ls > --colour" command. > > > > when I tried the same, it didn't work. > > so i asked the question.... > > - santhosh > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Cedric Auger <sedri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > 2014-10-31 17:58 GMT+01:00 Santhosh T <santhosh.tek...@gmail.com>: > > > >> when i type "ls --unknownoption" > >> > >> i am expected "--unknownoption" to be shown in red. > >> > >> fish only showing wrong commands in red color, but not wrong options > >> > >> i already did run "fish_update_completions" > >> > >> I am using MAC > >> > >> thanks > >> Santhosh > >> > >> > >> > > I first glance, I would say, that it is not a realistic feature. > > How could you tell if a given option is a right or a wrong one? > > > > For the command, work is easy: just ask the file system is there is such > > an executable program. > > But there is no Unix command which tells given a program and options if > > they are compatible. > > Of course, like autocompletion, you could forbid some options (but that > > would concern only very specific programs for which the set of "good" > > options can be easily known). > > Plus there should be some clever parsing, as for example "ls -- > > --unknownoption" is a valid command (at least on the Ubuntu version I have). > > That is because I can create a file named "--unknownoption". > > > > > > -- > > .../Sedrikov\... > > > Cheers, David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Ask Me About Our SLA! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
