[jboss-as7-dev] cli terminal changes

[Sebastian Otaegui]

I used to be a bash fan, converted to zsh and never looked back.

+1 for using zsh completion style

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Galder Zamarreño <galder at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On May 9, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
>
> >
> > On May 7, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to let everybody know that thanks to Stale's efforts we are
> >> switching from jline to Stale's jreadline project as the base
> >> console/terminal for the CLI.
> >>
> >> jline has a number of bugs that we can't do anything about. jreadline
> >> has fixed those and Stale is happy to continue improving things.
> >>
> >> Of course, a few changes will come along with the switch. They are
> >>
> >> - the ordering of columns are different compared to jline, jreadline
> >> does it similar to bash;
> >> - tab-completion is more like bash, i.e. if there are 'file' and
> >> 'file2', completing 'f' will result in 'file' w/o showing 'file2'
> >
> > Hmmmm, can I suggest something here? I can't remember of the top of my
> head if JBoss CLI works like this, and I'm not that the above statement
> matches my suggestion:
> >
> > One thing I love of tab completion in zsh (as opposed to bash) is the
> following: Imagine that as you say you have both 'file' and 'file2'
> >
> > The first time I do: f + tab, it will show: file
> >
> > But if I click tab again, so: f + tab + tab, it will give me: file2
> >
> > If there was a file3, doing: f + tab + tab + tab will give me: file3
> >
> > …etc
> >
> > IIRC, with bash, you had to actually  type 2 to be to get to file2.
> >
> > Does people find zsh style tab completion more useful too?
>
> Actually, let me be even more precise here:
>
> more + f + tab:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file
>
> more + f + tab + tab:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file
> file   file2  file3
>
> more + f + tab + tab + tab:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file2
> file   file2  file3
>
> more + f + tab + tab + tab + tab:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file3
> file   file2  file3
>
> Essentially, you don't need to type '2' or '3'…etc.
>
> There are some other goodies, such as '*' extension:
>
> more + file + *:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file*
>
> If after * you know do tab, if expands into:
> [g@:~/Varia]% more file file2 file3
>
> There are more goodies, as explained in
> http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/zsh-tab-completion, but, IMO, the two are
> above are far superior than bash.
>
> Others might have other opinions...
>
> >
> >> candidate (like jline would do) unless the tab key is pressed after
> 'file';
> >> - there are no more files that are read to enable key bindings. By
> >> default emacs-mode is enabled, but vi-mode is also supported. jreadline
> >> has more keybindings compared to jline and also follows what's default
> >> in bash;
> >> - atm reading the ~/.inputrc is not enabled, but we could enable if
> >> necessary. If people have defined vi-mode, it will catch it and enable
> >> vi-mode by default;
> >> - undo and redo is another new feature afaik.
> >>
> >> In the future it will also be possible to customize different bindings
> >> to different actions in that file, but its not supported now.
> >>
> >> Here are a couple of major issues that'll be fixed with the switch:
> >> - to be able to navigate and edit commands that spread across multiple
> >> lines (AS7-2615 Backspace doesn't work over linebreaks);
> >> - AS7-2436 clear screen doesn't work on windows 7.
> >>
> >>
> >> The pull request hasn't been sent yet. It's just a warning that this is
> >> coming.
> >>
> >> Please, let us know if you have any concerns about this.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alexey
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> >
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> > Galder Zamarreño
> > Sr. Software Engineer
> > Infinispan, JBoss Cache
> >
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> Galder Zamarreño
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> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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