Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Peter]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, William Park wrote:

> I've just added bunch of string operations into Bash shell.
>    http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
>
> While I'm at it, is there any features that you'd like to see in Bash
> shell?

Well, not realy a feature request, but maybe building some sort of 
partial 'screen' functionality into bash would be good. This is 
especially handy when doing remote administration imho. ^Z and fg are 
really lame as job control interface imho. Maybe a 1..3 lines of 
terminal could be dedicated to displaying the running status of a few 
jobs (like background downloads or upgrades or updatedb or similar). 
They could appear on the bottom or at the top of the terminal area. This 
would require ncurses.

just an idea,
Peter

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