Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash [LWN.net]

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 24, 2012 21:45 UTC (Mon) by akeane (guest, #85436)
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

The sad thing is this wonderful new feature seems only to be for the GUI folk, more discrimination against us old skool CLI users!

Don't worry I have filed a bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/...

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Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 24, 2012 22:33 UTC (Mon) by mordae (guest, #54701) [Link] (3 responses)

You have filled it against gnome-terminal instead of grep and got closed, you dummy! But seriously, it's only a matter of time until we get:

you@home:~$ portal2
base: portal2: command not found...
Would you like to buy and install Portal 2 via Steam for $7.49 [Y/n]?

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 24, 2012 22:49 UTC (Mon) by akeane (guest, #85436) [Link]

grep was just an example!

Do you really expect me to waste my valuable time filing bugs for find, ls, lex, yacc, whois, nslookup, getent...

Also, when I run ubuntu-bug I get:

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You're right though, I was being lazy AND a dummy sticking it under gnome-terminal, real man use CRTL-ALT-F1; what a fool I've been ;-)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 0:30 UTC (Tue) by akeane (guest, #85436) [Link]

yep, and <TAB><TAB> only gives:

akeane@awesome-haX0r:~$
Display all 2717 possibilities? (y or n)

Should give:

akeane@awesome-haX0r:~$
Display all 3,141,596,254 results possibilities? (y or n)
Do you feel lucky? (y)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 3:02 UTC (Tue) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link]

Actually, that one might just be a sensible way to do it.
After all, Ubuntu's command-not-found is actually quite helpful, telling you the apt-get command you need to run.

I'd have no objection to that instance, provided that I had already chosen to add the commercial repository to apt, and that the query was a local one, matching against a local list of available packages (rather than sending the full text of any potentially mis-spelled command + args over the net to a 3rd party).

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 0:21 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (guest, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

That's really sarcastic, man. 8-)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 0:25 UTC (Tue) by akeane (guest, #85436) [Link]

Sarcasm is the slowest form of twit!

:-)

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 25, 2012 15:07 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link] (4 responses)

Whatever next? Google Suggest for the command line?

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 26, 2012 16:20 UTC (Wed) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link] (3 responses)

> Whatever next? Google Suggest for the command line?

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/images/autosuggestion.png

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 27, 2012 9:41 UTC (Thu) by fb (guest, #53265) [Link] (1 responses)

>> Whatever next? Google Suggest for the command line?

> http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/images/autosuggestion.png

In the last 3 days I've been using Zsh's predict-on for the first time. I still can't decide whether it is a blessing or a curse.

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 28, 2012 17:08 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

It's interesting, but unless I can get predict-next and predict-previous widgets, it's definitely a curse. ("man foo" gets predicted to "man foobar" and there's no easy way to say "no, bad predict"). I suppose I should bind "kill-line" and use it.

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 28, 2012 18:21 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

No, I actually meant Google Suggest where your shell reaches out to Google on every keystroke, pulling in "popular" queries and frequently stupid ones, too - just start typing a famous name and see what it suggests - for the "convenience" of being able to mix local commands with local and remote searches without switching windows in one huge conceptual tangle that makes technical support - the kind that Canonical probably doesn't do - so much fun for anyone who does have to support users running that "new-fangled Linux thing".