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

[Anders L. <and...@gm...>]

ons 2008-09-17 klockan 14:32 -0400 skrev Steven W. Orr:
> 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?
> 

Sound good to me. Simpler and no chance of misspellings. Go for it.

-- 
Anders Lindén
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