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