From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Cc: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Subject: Re: PATCH: _a2ps completion
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:06:38 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200001181206.NAA01246@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zefram's message of Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:46:00 +0000 (GMT)
Zefram wrote:
> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> >Ok, I wasn't aware of the possibilities of *newer versions* of GNU
> >a2ps. So I change my statement to: I'm very much against completing
> >all files unconditionally. We should do that only if the a2ps is a
> >newer GNU version that supports automatic conversion and whatnot. Ok?
>
> I too didn't know a2ps had changed to do this stuff. Considering
> only older versions, I'm still in favour of completing all files
> unconditionally. PostScript (and HTML, and TeX) files are perfectly
> valid text files, and therefore perfectly valid subjects for all commands
> that deal with text files, including a program that renders plain text
> in PostScript.
>
> >My a2ps (4.10.1) at least produces only pages containing the
> >PostScript code for PostScript files. And since only few people will
> >probably want that, I still think PostScript files shouldn't be
> >completed for such a version by default.
>
> If we go the way you suggest, we might as well not complete *.c as
> an argument to gcc -o. Or one's own username as an argument to su.
> Or /vmunix as an argument to rm.
Hey, good idea... ;-)
> Where does it end? Least surprise is
> the key.
Depends on what surprises you and what not, obviously.
But to repeat: since I can easily configure my setup, I won't start
crying if the patch makes it into the base. And I'm outvoted already...
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-01-18 12:06 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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2000-01-19 16:16 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-01-18 13:17 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-01-18 20:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-01-18 11:30 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-01-18 11:46 ` Zefram
2000-01-18 11:50 ` Akim Demaille
2000-01-18 11:00 Akim Demaille
2000-01-18 11:32 ` Akim Demaille
2000-01-18 10:17 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-01-18 8:08 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-01-17 15:28 Clint Adams
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