bash completion (was: RE: Units)

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Dec 19 08:24:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:04:22AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Morrison, John wrote:
>
>>Thats not what the help file says...
>>
>>"Note that category names may be multi-word, e.g., "ASCII Games" but,
>>currently all categories are only a single word."
>
>
>I know that.
>
>category: Shell Utils
>
>is two categories.
>
>category: "Shell Utils"
>
>is one category.  (Earnie's example was the former, not the latter -- 
>hence, two categories)  It is POSSIBLE to have a space in the category 
>name, but you must quote properly.  Just like it is POSSIBLE to have a 
>space in a directory name ("Program Files") -- but it causes no END of 
>headaches.  I am saying: please let us not do this.  Stay with oneword 
>category names.  Hungarian-ize them if we must:  ShellUtils

I hate to be a wet blanket about this but I'm not convinced that this package
belongs in the distribution.  It seems too narrow in scope for its own
package.

Is there anything similar to this in Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, etc.?

cgf



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