/usrmove? -> about the future

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Feb 16 02:16:13 UTC 2012


On 15/02/12 01:30 PM, Adam Williamson 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.

Right. And thanks to this thread I just learned what "broke" bash completion for me after fresh 
install of F16: 'rpm -e bash-completion' fixed bash for me :-)



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