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Article #650Re: GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes
From: Karl Berry
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:47
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:47
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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
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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