From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1736 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 12:07:00 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 12:07:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 6966 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2000 12:06:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9349 Received: (qmail 6959 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 12:06:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:06:38 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200001181206.NAA01246@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk CC: Akim Demaille In-reply-to: Zefram's message of Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:46:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: PATCH: _a2ps completion 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 -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de