🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: gnu.utils.bug
Article #650

Re: GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes

#650
From: Karl Berry
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:47
25 lines
1466 bytes
Mike, I must disagree about not having completion append
/'s where possible.  That just means *I* to type the /.
(Or another tab, almost as bad.)

If you actually like to type the second TAB to get a /,
then that's fine, it could be some user option.  But I don't
think it's right for either of us to force our personal
typing styles on the other.

By the way, more programs than bash complete -- there are 
all the zillion completion packages running around
for Emacs.

I still don't see the problem with having mv etc. simply
check if the purported directory with the trailing slash
actually *is* a directory before it removes it.  It seems
to me that makes the original poster happy, because he gets
error messages when he erroneously types
mv foo bar/
where bar is not a directory; it makes me happy, because the
slashes that the completion functions continue to work
properly with the GNU file utilities; and it requires no
new options, environment variables, or other such things.

karl@cs.umb.edu
Technical Details
Message-ID: <199208271047.AA07746@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!claude.cs.umb.edu!karl

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!claude.cs.umb.edu!karl
From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re:  GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes
Message-ID: <199208271047.AA07746@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:47:15 GMT
Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
Lines: 26