One of the things I feel could really help out in bash is that if there’s a small column on the left showing all the files. Especially considering I have two terminals maximized all the time, and I keep typing in “ls” every five commands,
How nice would it be to simply be know the contents of the current folder which changes whenever you change the folder.
A similar functionality is provided in the “hotwire” shell, which failed to make sufficient impact for me.
Essentially, create a simple column on the lhs about ten columns wide, and print a list of files there. Of course there’re the issues that what happens with scrolling output, etc.
But you never know what’s going to be the next feature these days. I keep finding new features all around my operating system. Primarily because I forgot to include the hardy-updates branch in my sources.list and my system hadn’t been updated for four months. There were 850 mb of upgrades to be downloaded (which took a few seconds) and a few more to be installed.
Well, if someone does manage a sidebar console print hack, I’ll award them the “bash-tard of the month” award.
Precommands.