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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@yahoo.com>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: XML version of completion function
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:39:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010801073909.ZM324@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010801065937.52572.qmail@web10407.mail.yahoo.com>

On Jul 31, 11:59pm, Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
} 
} Here are some first drafts of a couple XML examples based on the
} _zip & _find files.
} 
} Does this seem useful, yet?  Any suggestions for making it better?
} 
} [ Attachment (text/xml): "find.xml" 51024 bytes
}   find.xml ]
} 
} [ Attachment (text/xml): "zip.xml" 69445 bytes
}   zip.xml ]

Are you really, seriously suggesting that it's worthwhile to expend
50-70 thousand bytes defining the completion for a single command?  
In the case of zip that's 45% larger than the executable; it's even
larger than the executable and its manual page combined.

In find.xml there are about 5500 bytes of actual data, including the
help text ... the other 89% is XML tags.  I'm sorry, I just can't get
excited about this.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-01  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-01  6:59 Felix Rosencrantz
2001-08-01  7:39 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2001-08-01  8:31   ` Sven Wischnowsky
2001-08-03  7:31   ` Felix Rosencrantz
2001-08-03  7:36   ` Felix Rosencrantz

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