On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:10, Rod Taylor wrote: > I've been debating a mechanism which could build tab completion tables > based on the documentation for a while now -- and was going to give it a > try next week. If it works, that file would essentially disappear.
OK, will hold off and see what happens. > > In this respect couple of general questions: > > - is there any reason why tab expansion of slash commands is > > only implemented in a few cases? E.g. for \d but not \di ? > > . is there any requirement to maintain any kind of backwards > > compatibilty to pre 7.3 clients? > > Post 7.3 launch most of these cases were cleaned up, not to say some > weren't missed. You might want to take a look at CVS-TIP sources. It's what I have... > Feel > free to send in patches for ones that have been missed. ...what I meant is that after entering \d, TAB will produce a list of tables, but \di does not produce a list of indexes, same for \dv etc. I see no particular reason why this is so and can provide patches if relevant. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
