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
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