From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50810031034r44f76046q8ff20017667bc2f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:34:20 -0200 From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14ec7b180810030952x232d9cd3p1d5d1e969ab28a8a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] control-F completion question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 16d54ee8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hola, I got the tip from rog's post to affect rio's ns, plumber's actually. http://9fans.net/archive/2005/02/171 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > > 2008/10/3 andrey mirtchovski >> >> i sometimes wonder whether the ^F completion stuff wasn't left this >> way on purpose, as if to illustrate the futility of (essentially) a >> single-node solution in the presence of distributed environments. >> >> to solve what you perceive to be a problem you must ask yourself: what >> is the one thing that is fully aware of the current namespace? it's >> obviously not rio: it simply juggles windows with shells in them. is >> it the shell? putting the completion in the shell itself would work >> for plain terminals, but wouldn't work for rio. is it the kernel? >> would you bother adding to the kernel something as silly as command >> completion? how about completing across a network? >> >> all difficult questions for a silly problem ;) > > I might again be wrong, but I thought the reason why the completion is not > in the rc is partially thanks to the fact, that rc doesn't know anything you > type until you press 'enter'. Only rio knows. (But all this is based only on > my possibly broken opinion...) > But yes, the best would be (for me and I guess for everybody, since we > usually speak to rc when we need the completion) to be as close to the rc's > namespace as possible. > Correct me, please, if I am completely off the road... :) > > Ruda > > -- Federico G. Benavento