[Bash-completion-devel] alias completion: is apprending '=' by default really useful ?

David Paleino d.paleino at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 22:25:49 UTC 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:14:07 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> Alias completion currently completes on alias name, always appending '=' 
> sign to them. It might be useful if the intent is actually to define, 
> but if the goal is just to inspect current definition, it's not, and 
> requires additional user effort to edit its current command line. 
> According to minimal completion principle, I'd rather drop it.

Please do. At least IMHO.

> Additionaly, it can even get considered harmful, as if the user confirms 
> the command line too quickly, it will wipe out alias in question...

It happened to me too. :/

David

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