On 02/15/2012 05:19 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Adam
Williamson<awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 18:10 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 15.02.2012 17:59, schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
>>> On 02/15/2012 05:06 PM, Steve Clark wrote:
>>>> On 02/15/2012 05:49 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>>> It might be a shocking revelation to you but not everybody uses or
>>>>> relies their world on bash autocompletion.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Panu -
>>>> What world are you living in?
>>> bash-completion is not a default package. Obviously only a small
>>> percentage of users are going to use it. This isn't something you need
>>> to debate about. If it was used by the majority, it would be there by
>>> default already.
>> it is used by all professional users using mostly a terminal
> yeah...I'm getting paid for this, so I guess I'm a professional user,
> and I use terminals an awful lot, but I don't use bash-completion. Every
> time I ever tried it I found, like Rahul, that it makes things slow and
> tends to get in my way more than it ever does help me.
I use bash completion all the time every single day - I guess I have
become a corner case!
No you haven't. All the developers I have worked with since the early nineties
use it all the
time every day. We would be lost without it.
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