Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/12/19/12:16:52
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 4:17 pm
> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT 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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