On 05/11/2007, Rich Burridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > To which I will have to disagree and state that the longer a name is > > the easier it is to mistype it and the more annoying. > > > > There must be a compromise between descriptive and efficient. > > > > Small names do not always lead to confusion. > > > > Ubuntu has this wonderful name completion feature when you enter Tab: > > $ ma<Tab> > macaroon makeg > magnifier makekdewidgets > mahjongg make-memtest86+-boot-floppy > mail make_method > mail-files make-ssl-cert > mailq makestrs > mailshar man > mailx mandb > make manpath > makedepend map > make_driver_db_cups mattrib > make_driver_db_lpr mawk > > $ make<Tab> > make makekdewidgets > makedepend make-memtest86+-boot-floppy > make_driver_db_cups make_method > make_driver_db_lpr make-ssl-cert > makeg makestrs > > $ make > > Maybe we could implement something like that...
Which is likely dependent on the shell you are using; so isn't really a solution. Not only that, it precludes places other than the shell from benefiting. However, that would be a good enhancement for pools that users create themselves. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
