/usrmove? -> about the future

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 22:19:09 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 18:10 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 15.02.2012 17:59, schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>> > On 02/15/2012 05:06 PM, Steve Clark wrote:
>> >> On 02/15/2012 05:49 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> It might be a shocking revelation to you but not everybody uses or
>> >>> relies their world on bash autocompletion.
>> >>>
>> >>>     - Panu -
>> >> What world are you living in?
>> >
>> > bash-completion is not a default package.  Obviously only a small
>> > percentage of users are going to use it.  This isn't something you need
>> > to debate about.  If it was used by the majority, it would be there by
>> > default already.
>>
>> it is used by all professional users using mostly a terminal
>
> yeah...I'm getting paid for this, so I guess I'm a professional user,
> and I use terminals an awful lot, but I don't use bash-completion. Every
> time I ever tried it I found, like Rahul, that it makes things slow and
> tends to get in my way more than it ever does help me.

I use bash completion all the time every single day - I guess I have
become a corner case!

-- 
mike c


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