Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Shaya Potter
might it be more friendly to tab'ers to rename the dir base-doc instead of doc-base On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 02:01, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:11, Giorgio Mandolfo wrote: ... I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ but to look directly to

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Clint Adams
might it be more friendly to tab'ers to rename the dir base-doc instead of doc-base That seems like overkill. Just do something like zstyle ':completion:*' ignored-patterns 'doc-base'

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Shaya Potter
that just solves a single instance, most people including me are not experts on this, and just want it to work, while I get around it by adding a '/' at the end of doc others might be just very annoyed. On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:25, Clint Adams wrote: might it be more friendly to tab'ers to

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-09-02 Thread Martin Wheeler
On 2 Sep 2002, Shaya Potter wrote: while I get around it by adding a '/' at the end of doc others might be just very annoyed. Hear, hear! Try teaching a lab. full of newbies how to access local documentation via a browser, and see just *how* annoyed they can get. -- Martin Wheeler -

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:11, Giorgio Mandolfo wrote: ... I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ but to look directly to the new folder. Well, I there is a (very) simple and boring fact: the tab completion locks because there is /usr/share/doc-base/ too. I

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-27 Thread Yenar Calentaure
Giorgio Mandolfo wrote: Hi everybody. This may be quite stupid or frivolous. :-) I have noticed the migration of the extra documentation files from /usr/doc/ to /usr/share/doc/ (as also describes the Debian Policy chapter 13.3). I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-27 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 27.08.02 um 09:41:50 schrieb Yenar Calentaure: Just hit tab, slash instead of tab, one keystroke isn't THAT much :). Renameing the directory could solve your problem, but is it worth one keystroke per typing /usr/share/doc/whatever? Yes, it is worth it. I often use docs, I often use the

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-27 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:48:13AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: Perhaps I should use /usr/doc/ instead. Even shorter... I have been a happy man since I made a /doc symlink. Richard Braakman

Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-26 Thread Giorgio Mandolfo
Hi everybody. This may be quite stupid or frivolous. :-) I have noticed the migration of the extra documentation files from /usr/doc/ to /usr/share/doc/ (as also describes the Debian Policy chapter 13.3). I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ but to look