Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Sy]

On 5/16/05, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:19:53PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:39:14PM -0400, Sy wrote:
> > > Unless I totally missed reading on this functionality..  I'd like to
> > > be able to type a partial command which exists in my history, and then
> > > press up/down to cycle through the entries in history which partially
> > > match what I typed.

<snip>
> The key insight is "Programmable Completion" (man bash).  To make long
> story short, put this in ~/.profile.
<snip>

Thanks, you've given me a lot to think about.  I remember touching
briefly on this sort of thing when I was playing with zsh some time
ago.

I'm actually still contemplating making a wrapper between the shell
and myself using ruby so that I can keep the more familiar 4dos-style
functionality, and do wacky things which I'm not yet aware is possible
in something like bash.

This would force me to learn a new skill (ruby) and work towards
something that I've always wanted in Linux (4dos).

well.. it's a pipe dream.. for now I'll fiddle with my bash setup some more.  =)
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