From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21938 invoked from network); 18 Jul 1998 12:12:06 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Jul 1998 12:12:06 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA05223; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 08:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 07:56:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: matthi@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Matthias Kopfermann) Subject: an idea for a nice use of --flag_whatever ? To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 13:58:58 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"dSgrd1.0.IG1.ar8ir"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1685 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu I don't know if this would help new unix users. What do you think about doing completions for most commands that use the long-flags of many of the gnuish programms? Could this improve living for new users or is this just the wrong way? I tend to think, it really could improve things! I personally never use the long style nor do i know anyone who does, because it takes too long to write it down but the useful zsh-completion could make it possible to understand the flags much better for beginning users of commands. Has there ever been attempts to write completions, that use the self-explaining flags like --help, --version and so on for many commands? What would be a good start of such a project? ps: a tool in tk would be cool for people to learn how to program compctls, too.