Re: tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:02:05AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Since you've had your own system set this way for years, you don't know what
> > you're missing with bash_completion.
> Complaining about "fir<TAB>" not exclusively tab completing to "firefox"
> is a bit silly IMHO.  What if you have firestarter or firstaidkit (just
> to name a couple) installed?  Would you complain if either was added to
> the desktop install because you couldn't type "fir<TAB>" and get
> firefox?

I'd be annoyed if $( ls /sbin/ /usr/sbin/|wc -l ) 671 binaries were added to
the default path of desktop install by any means.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences