On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:35 -0800, Rich Burridge wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > To which I will have to disagree and state that the longer a name is
> > the easier it is to mistype it and the more annoying.
> >
> > There must be a compromise between descriptive and efficient.
> >
> > Small names do not always lead to confusion.
> >   
> 
> Ubuntu has this wonderful name completion feature when you enter Tab:
> 
> $ ma<Tab>
> macaroon                     makeg
> magnifier                    makekdewidgets
> mahjongg                     make-memtest86+-boot-floppy
> mail                         make_method
> mail-files                   make-ssl-cert
> mailq                        makestrs
> mailshar                     man
> mailx                        mandb
> make                         manpath
> makedepend                   map
> make_driver_db_cups          mattrib
> make_driver_db_lpr           mawk
> 
> $ make<Tab>
> make                         makekdewidgets
> makedepend                   make-memtest86+-boot-floppy
> make_driver_db_cups          make_method
> make_driver_db_lpr           make-ssl-cert
> makeg                        makestrs
> 
> $ make
> 
> Maybe we could implement something like that...

Thats just the shell. Just run bash or zsh or some other shell with
<tab> completion and hit <tab> - we don't need to implement anything,
its already there!

-Mark

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