From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: ls *.mp4 → ls : invalid option -- 'M'
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:04:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01caa44b-18a4-4d44-a863-5248e7b7413f@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZoAuc=wz2gup7yNxVghACRdUhB+TPwC0LDqV7+JrVobg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2023-10-16 20:49, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On the other had we have plenty of people requesting that completions
> offer either more, or more contextually specific, matches.
Isn't that a different issue? One can't have too much control.
> Those
> people certainly want assistance rather than imperatives,
Pardon? How do the two conflict?
> and the
> EDITOR/VISUAL checks have never prevented anyone from being explicit
> instead.
True, it's a philosophical thing, but the majority commented that they
found it either confusing or even confounding. I favor things like that
having one point of control which is an explicit imperative:
bindkey -vi
I tell the shell what I want. No guessing, no wondering, no conflicts.
Personal thing of course, but I myself consider simplicity to be a very
strong value. I'd even go as far as calling the EDITOR thing a bug.
Complexity that adds power is one thing, but complexity that just adds
lines of code while offering zero improvement in control is another.
I'm probably a bit of an extremist in this tho.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-17 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-13 7:59 Denis Bitouzé
2023-10-13 8:15 ` sergio
2023-10-13 8:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-10-13 11:38 ` Denis Bitouzé
2023-10-13 14:46 ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-13 15:13 ` Peter Stephenson
2023-10-13 15:58 ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-16 0:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 4:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 4:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 13:35 ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-16 18:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-16 19:45 ` Ray Andrews
2023-10-17 3:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-17 14:04 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2023-10-17 15:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-10-17 17:03 ` Ray Andrews
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