On 10/14/2014 at 08:02 PM, lee wrote: > The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > >> In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the >> tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That >> interferes with my workflow > > Are you actually using this completion stuff? It always gets into > my way and I keep it disabled or removed.
Programmable completion, no; I find that awkward in too many ways, and it breaks some of the assumptions I'd come to rely on from basic tab completion before programmable tab completion became default-available in Debian. But basic tab completion (executables in PATH, absolute pathnames, pathnames relative to the current directory), yes. It saves so much typing and so many typos, I can hardly imagine working without it anymore. (Except that I kind of have to, or at least to work with a more limited version of it, in Windows at my day job. But even there, basic tab completion works in cmd, just with some awkward quirks.) Not to mention that just offhand I'm not sure I'd even know how to turn off basic tab completion - whereas turning off programmable tab completion is pretty much just a matter of not sourcing the tab-completion files in the effective bash environment, IIRC. (Though I always have to look up where to do it, every time I build a new system.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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