When you say completion, if you mean the tab completion, that is paramount! without that, it would be nearly impossible to specify lengthy file names where you can't remember the exact spelling or just don't wanna have to type eighteen characters and risk miss-spelling the long name. I've really come to love tab expansion and I use it all the time in the shell as well as in emacs. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:26:08PM -0700, Gaijin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:35:36PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Debian is transitioning from using bash to using dash, the latter shell > > seems closer to the magic posix standard. > > Good. Never cared for bash completion and the Microsoftesque > penchant for trying to do everything, when some of us only want them to > keep the hell out of the way. Every new idea they add just boggs down > the overall system, rather than concentrating on writing faster, tighter > code for the user interface, leaving us stuck with chasing down the next > full computer upgrade just to keep up. It's stupid. I can recall back > in the 80's, having a spreadsheet and having it take 10 seconds to > recalculate the thing, and then looking at all the advances in Windows > and CPU processing power, and the same spreadsheet still takes 10 > seconds to recalculate. It's stupid. I needed to buy a whole new > computer because friggin Orca no longer runs worth a crap on a Celeron > CPU, and it's only going to get worse as time goes on. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
