From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:58:56 +0100 From: "Nils O. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sel=E5sdal?=" Subject: Re: [9fans] tab completion and command history in rc In-reply-to: <000001c5e0e1$76791f80$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <1131087536.12398.7.camel@nos-rh.utelsystems.local> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <71838305-CDB2-4CE6-87C5-8EFAA3E03FD1@mit.edu> <436AB5F5.8050703@moseslake-wa.com> <20051104012235.GE28449@server4.lensbuddy.com> <000001c5e0e1$76791f80$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a52a936e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 02:45 +0100, Uriel wrote: > One last note: one of the reasons why tab-completion is frowned upon is > because it's indication of too intricate paths, remember to keep your > file trees clean and simple and to take advantage of binds and union > mounts to keep everything at hand. If you do this you won't miss > tab-completion and you will have a much easier time finding what you are > looking for. Even all simple paths arn't remembered, and it may still fewer keystrokes.