From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA17907 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:53:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22455; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:45:30 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:44:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <6377.199604292142@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: easy question To: unpingco@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Jose Unpingco) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:42:34 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell users mailing list) In-Reply-To: <9604292133.AA03955@cryptica.UCSD.EDU> from "Jose Unpingco" at Apr 29, 96 02:33:37 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7429.52 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"IayPL.0.BU5.mWJXn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/192 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >why is it that when I do [...] >% man mtlab > >I get > >No manual entry for mtlab. Because you don't have a manual entry for mtlab? >instead of a correction prompting me for matlab instead of mtlab? Oh. Correction doesn't look at the compctl settings yet, nor (IMHO) should it. Some of the more complex completions often complete to only a small subset of legal arguments to a program. What is needed for correctall to be useful is a way to disable it for particular commands -- oh, look, we have nocorrect. -zefram