/usrmove? -> about the future

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Thu Feb 16 00:23:24 UTC 2012


On 02/15/2012 05:19 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> 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!
>
No you haven't. All the developers I have worked with since the early nineties use it all the
time every day. We would be lost without it.

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