[Konsole-devel] [Bug 179039] GUI for BASH (possibly other shells as well) autocompletion feature

[Robert Knight]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179039





--- Comment #3 from Robert Knight <robertknight gmail com>  2008-12-29 22:58:03 ---
> That's why I think it is a great time to change it

You miss my point.  If people start bash or zsh they expect it to work a
certain way, have certain features and configuration methods etc.  If you take
a lesser-known shell as a starting point you won't have that problem.

> No new dependency to the shell would be needed at all, 
> just some (I hope minor) code changes to the shell. 

That might work - show me a prototype and we'll see. 

> This way we would lose the compatibility with existing scripts

Scripts have a line at the top which specifies what to run them with and if
they don't, 'sh' is assumed.

> in this case it is a real pain to use a console to find needed file

I can honestly say that I rarely have much difficulty finding files - though I
work mostly with source code in a variety of languages so its just a case of
switching to the top level and recursively searching the text using Vim's
built-in tools, possibly using a tag file - since I'm usually interested in a
specific definition or function rather than a particular file itself.  Can you
give me a more specific example of when you find it difficult to locate
something?


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