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Started by Karl Berry
Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:47
Re: GNU fileutils v3.2.3 alter pathnames by removing trailing slashes
Author: 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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