[forge-dev] New shell feedback

Hi folks, As I promised, here is a [intended-to-be] short feedback about the new Forge 2 shell. As some of you know, I use Windows (Really? OK...). So I will be very happy to help you solve the issues besides merely reporting them: * The history doesn't work. That is, when you press up and down arrows instead of the previous commands, you get this: αH * Backspace doesn't work. When I press it, the cursor just comes back to the previous position without deleting the character there. If I just write something there, the old symbol is overwritten by the new one, but at the end after pressing enter it looks like you never entered anything after pressing backspace. For example: 1) I write *new-project --namek* 2) I notice the typo and press backspace 3) k doesn't get deleted, but I overwrite it with d 4) Then I complete my command to look like this: *new-project --named test* 5) Forge's output is: *Project name must be specified.* * As you know on windows the full path to a file or directory is <drive-letter>:\<dir1>\<dir2> 1) If I try to do *cd c:\temp\forge*, Forge blows with exception: org.jboss.forge.addon.resource.ResourceException: [FileResourceImpl] can have no children at org.jboss.forge.addon.resource.AbstractFileResource.getChild(Abstract FileResource.java:78) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.util.PathspecParser.resolve(PathspecParse r.java:232) at org.jboss.forge.addon.shell.commands.CdCommand.execute(CdCommand.java :71) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) 2) Somehow I noticed that I may use the paths without the drive letter, e.g. just \<dir1>\<dir2>. It is legal to do it in Windows, but thus you can't change to a directory located on a different drive. For example cd \temp\forge will change to c:\temp\forge if you are currently in c:. So I tried *cd \temp\forge*, but the result was the same [exception]. 3) If I am in the root directory (c:\) and I run *cd temp\forge*, I don't get exception, but ****ERROR*** tempforge\: No such file or directory*. The interesting thing is that I ran that command by pressing tab, i.e. counting on the command completion of the shell, which obviously works fine. I made the cd command work by just running *cd /temp/forge* (notice the forward slashes) If you wish, I may add these observations as JIRA items, probably as children to this one: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1387. Bear in mind that all the reported features work in Forge 1 even on Windows ;) We can discuss these in today's meeting. Cheers, Ivan