[forge-dev] New shell feedback

[Ivan St. Ivanov]

Sorry, forgot to mention that this is with snapshot from December, 29th.
The situation was the same with all the previous betas and alphas.


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:13 PM, George Gastaldi <ggastald at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback ivan.
> Are you testing against the latest snapshot?
>
> Best Regards,
> George
>
> Em 08/01/2014, às 11:10, "Ivan St. Ivanov" <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
> 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
>
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