Re: [Bashburn-info] A historical idea to throw out :-)

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Wednesday, Sep 17th 2008 at 14:56 -0000, quoth Markus Kollmar:

=>Steven W. Orr schrieb:
=>> There are some places in bb where we throw a prompt and ask the user for 
=>> input, where there are a set of choices that would make sense for the user 
=>> to type in. I'm not talking about completion. Here's an example (and 
=>> there are many others):
=>>
=>> +--------------+
=>> | BashBurn 3.0 |
=>> +--------------+
=>> |
=>> +--------------+ INFORMATION +--------------+
=>> This option sets the language BashBurn's interface will be shown in.
=>> The current setting is: English, and below is a list
=>> of possible languages to choose from.
=>> To cancel, just press [ENTER].
=>> +--------------+ INFORMATION +--------------+
=>>
=>> Czech  English  German  Italian  Norwegian  Polish  Spanish  Swedish
=>>
=>> +--------------+-------------+--------------+
=>>
=>> Your Choice? |>
=>>
=>> Wouldn't it be nice for the user to be able to hit ^P or UpArrow and be 
=>> able to cycle through the only choices that are available?
=>>
=>> I just found out how to do it. (Highly abbreviated example code.)
=>>
=>> ls > tmpfile
=>> history -c
=>> history -r tmpfile
=>> read -r -p 'Your choice? |> '
=>>
=>> Does anyone hate this?
=>>
=>>   
=>Oh, I think this i a great advantage! Steven your are great! :-)
=>
=>Maybe we should then backup the prior contents of the history file, so 
=>that after exiting bashburn the user has the history as it was before 
=>starting bashburn.

Interesting suggestion. The problem is that it's sort of like a cummerbund 
or a vest. You only get to choose one. ;-)

What we can do is to create a ~/.bashburn_history which would contain all 
of the history items that get gen'd *except* for the entries that would 
happen on input that expected some sort of possible enumeration.

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