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Article #649Re: GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes
From: Joachim Schrod
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:59
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:59
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In article <9208261851.AA19014@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes: > The solution is for readline completion to refrain from appending the > slash when complieting tto the name of a directory. !!!! NO !!!! It's such a nice thing to see immediately if a file is a directory or not. Otherwise one cannot distinguish the fact if this is a common prefix of more than one file or if it's a directory. (Btw, your example was wrong. You forgot the space at the end of the completed file.) -- Joachim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Computer Science Department Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!iti.INformatik.TH-darmstadt.DE!schrod From: schrod@iti.INformatik.TH-darmstadt.DE (Joachim Schrod) Subject: Re: GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes Message-ID: <1992Aug27.095944.36878@news.th-darmstadt.de> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: TU Darmstadt References: <199208220155.AA08779@frob.eng.umd.edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:59:44 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 19