RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

["Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 4:17 pm
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)
> 
> 
> 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.

Fair enough - I found it today and found it useful.  I thought one of the
purposes of this list was to question whether an app would be a nice
addition.

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

Don't know.  Sorry - I don't have a linux box!

J.

> cgf
> 


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