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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@tiny.zanshin.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: completion features
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:06:01 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14056.15945.942483.314595@awayteam.zanshin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9903111702.AA42488@ibmth.df.unipi.it>

Peter Stephenson writes:
 > Something like ++^D when you have correction set to 2 will allow anything
 > at all to be completed, assuming there was no exact match.  Sven mentioned
 > something about this, but it looks particularly funny here.  What are we
 > going to do? 
 >   - max no. of corrections is one *less* than length of prefix+suffix?

I like this.

 >   - assume users, unlike me, are smart enough to cope?

I don't think we should assume that any users unlike you are able to cope,
_especially_ if you aren't able to.


  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-11 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-11 17:02 Peter Stephenson
1999-03-11 22:06 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-03-12  8:55 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-12  9:36 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-12  9:38 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-03-12 13:10 Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-12 16:19 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-03-13 17:59   ` Bart Schaefer
1999-03-15  9:59 Sven Wischnowsky

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