On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:23:38AM -0700, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > If I modify them, doesn't that mean they will get overwritten by the next > update to the bash package? > No; it is a configuration file, which means dpkg will prompt you whether or not to replace the file. You can choose not to.
> I know the reasons for program-specific tab completion--I love it with svn, > but it is annoying when you are trying to tab-complete a filename and it > won't do it because the file doesn't end with PDF or pdf for example. > > To me it seems like this is heading down the windows route. Give all your > file names a 3 character extension so you know what to open it with. > Shouldn't it be more 'unixy' and be based on the mime-type of the file? > You're right, the heuristic for evince is a bit flawed. mime-type would be foolproof, but imagine how long tab would take on a directory with 10,000 files if the mime-type of each file had to be checked, rather than just the name. > I maintain that the bash prompt is not supposed to be a user-friendly > environment. It's the bash prompt afterall. It's where admins, power-users, > and all-around geeks can go to do advanced stuff. > > I don't think it's a good argument to say that people need to have > user-friendly hand-holding at the command prompt. If I want to run 'evince > somefile.asp' I should be able to. I don't care if the extension is .asp > .pdf or .mystupidfile. > For the most part I value a degree of user-friendliness in the shell that gets my work done faster. I work 90% of my time in the CLI and believe that my shell (zsh) tab completion boosts my overall productivity. Instead, there should be convenient/intuitive ways of disabling this functionality where it is not desired.
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