Re: [Fish-users] fish and iTerm

2007-04-04 Thread Ben Stiglitz
> I'm running fish[1] as my shell under iTerm[2]. fish will start > up and run for a while and then it will crash and kill iTerm. I > will be running any number of programs: vim, sqlplus, gqlplus, > less, etc. I don't believe the problem is iTerm. Using zsh as my > shell does not cause

Re: [Fish-users] The trouble with casing

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Stiglitz
On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:59:08AM -0600, Myrddin Emrys wrote: >> linux> rm ab* >> Ab* Absolute.txt, Abstract.txt, Abrasive.txt... >> linux> rm Ab* > > this is exactly what i am afraid of, because if i do not notice > that the > case chsnged

Re: [Fish-users] bug: ctrl-w does not use whitespace as a word boundary

2006-10-19 Thread Ben Stiglitz
I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I have no clue what it is. It may be your LOCALE or LANG; if you’re lucky, the word-breaking is locale-dependent.-Ben- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, sec

Re: [Fish-users] Changed expansion rule for '**'

2006-10-19 Thread Ben Stiglitz
?: Matches any character except '/' *: Matches any substring not including the character '/' **: Matches any substring To me, this seems much more intuitive. Unless someone has a very strong reason for sticking with the current behaviour, it will change. This sounds great. Anything done to reduce

Re: [Fish-users] Multiline editing

2006-10-16 Thread Ben Stiglitz
Ah, I understand. Unfortunatly, it seems that allowing the terminal to wrap itself makes cursor movement unpredictable. Sometimes moving up/down the wrapped line is seen as one line, sometimes as two. That would definitely be a bug in your terminal emulator or your cursor handling code. While many

Re: [Fish-users] Name for the fish configuration file

2006-10-11 Thread Ben Stiglitz
> If the fish configuration files are moved to ~/.config/fish, it seems > a bit silly for the configuration file to be named > > ~/.config/fish/fish How about ~/.config/fish/food or ~/.config/fish/tank? I’m sure a more clever individual could find an acronym expansion for food or tank. -Ben

Re: [Fish-users] autodetecting completions?

2006-09-28 Thread Ben Stiglitz
>> An alternative approach that actually almost always works is to parse >> the manpage, at least as a fallback. I was looking at command >> completion a while back and this approach worked with nearly every >> manpage I threw at it. > > If you still have the code and have the option of releasing i

Re: [Fish-users] autodetecting completions?

2006-09-21 Thread Ben Stiglitz
>> Problems with this approach: >> Get this accepted in all getopt implementations. > > seems a lot easier than getting all apps patched. An alternative approach that actually almost always works is to parse the manpage, at least as a fallback. I was looking at command completion a while back