On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:48:43PM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > > > Thursday, September 16, 1999, 10:50:57 AM, Raul wrote: > > > > Um.. you're just not lazy enough... > > > > # cd /usr/local/bin > > > > # ln -s /usr/bin/perl > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 11:42:21AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > ln -s `which perl` /usr/local/bin/perl > > > > You're confusing keystroke time with character count. > > Hmm.... > > cd /u<TAB>lo<TAB>b<TAB><ENTER>ln -s /u<TAB>b<TAB>perl<ENTER> > 28 keystrokes > > ln -s `which perl` /u<TAB>lo<TAB>b<TAB><ENTER> > 28 keystrokes > > Of course, these assume a fairly clean /, /usr, and /usr/local. Someone > may want to double-check my counting. The answer of course, is that the > first is better, as you don't have to reach for the backtick. ;) BTW, I > know you can also <TAB>complete the which command, but you first have to > type "whic" to get past matching "while", so just typing "h" is simpler. > > -- > Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndn.net/ > "As time goes on, my signature gets shorter and shorter..." - me >
What about: zsh# ln -s =perl /usr/local/bin <27 keystrokes without assuming anything> or even: zsh# ln -s =perl ~lbin <18 keystrokes if you have ~lbin variable correctly set> Just picking ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------