Re: OneFinger - the graphical shell

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: 18 Sep 2004 08:23:33 GMT

On 2004-09-18, seguso wrote:
> peter pilsl wrote:
>> I'm sure there are things you can do easier with OneFinger than with
>> i.e. bash, but bash is also very powerful and to me its powerfull enough
>> (its also does caching, narrowing,
>
> Well, tab completion has always been a kind of pain to me. And the narrowing
> is not from file to program, only from program to file.

   That would be an interesting addition to the shell: enter a file
   name that is not an executable, and the shell inserts the default
   command for that file, or type of file, perhaps giving a list of
   options as with command completion when there is more than one
   applicable command. 

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