[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Paul van Nugteren]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:57:47 +0100, "Ronald Vos" <egregius at gmail.com>
said:
> >
> > I agree with Waldemar, an improved object-oriented command line shell
> > isn't a project for Haiku R1 or R2, even if it is something we could
> > make use of.
> >
> 
> Valid point. However there's many ways the ordinary CLI can be improved.
> TBH
> I don't have much experience with UNIX-like shells, but plenty with
> Window
> XP's cmd.exe, and I think some little things would go a long way in
> improving the experience. Not just tab-completion, but also small things
> like icons for quick recognition of filetypes, copy&paste that actually
> works from GUI to CLI (does the BeOS shell have that actually?), and
> drag&dropping a file causing the filename to be pasted into the CLI. Or
> clicking on a filename in a directory listing in the CLI doing the same,
> or
> double-clicking to open it. Stuff like that.

Agree, for example bash will even propose files to 'cd' to, not very
handy :-( zsh OTOH seems to do better in this regard, so I've heard. The
trouble is double clicking here on linux bash in Konsole will select a
'word' and put it into a buffer for pasting with the middle mouse
button, very handy. Don't select any other text to be replaced by the
previously selected though, even with ctrl-a you'll get it into the same
buffer, thus a good *compromise* should be found.



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