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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
