tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Oct 1 13:08:15 UTC 2008
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:02:05AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Since you've had your own system set this way for years, you don't know what
> > you're missing with bash_completion.
> Complaining about "fir<TAB>" not exclusively tab completing to "firefox"
> is a bit silly IMHO. What if you have firestarter or firstaidkit (just
> to name a couple) installed? Would you complain if either was added to
> the desktop install because you couldn't type "fir<TAB>" and get
> firefox?
I'd be annoyed if $( ls /sbin/ /usr/sbin/|wc -l ) 671 binaries were added to
the default path of desktop install by any means.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
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