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Subject: Re: Convention question regarding completions
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
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Bump.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:15, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when writing completions, should I XAND only the options
> which are really mutually exclusive like
>
>  tar x
>  tar c
>
> or should I XAND the ones which won't work but won't hurt,
> either like
>
>  --verbose
>  --quiet
>
> or should I XAND even the ones which become superfluous
> like the second option in
>
>  deluser --remove-all-files
>  deluser --remove-home
>
> ?
>
> Personally, I lean towards the third, i.e. most inclusive
> XAND rule, but I am interested what the others think.
>
>
> Richard
>
> PS: Just in case it's not clear from context what I mean
> by XAND:
>
> '(x)c[create a new archive]'
> '(c)x[extract files from an archive]'
>