From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: README
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:16:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9903011316.AA46901@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:23:32 NFT." <199903011323.OAA14207@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> P.S.: "...and will most likely not feel like altering them (or, in
> some cases, even reading them, unless you are a shell wizard)",
> is it really that... erm... bad? overwhelming? complicated?
> badly written?
The (small amount of) feedback so far seems to suggest that people who
weren't born reading shell scripts find this stuff hard to understand. I
didn't want to put anyone off from using it just because it looks hard.
Maybe the message can be made more developer-friendly.
--- Completion/README~ Mon Mar 1 14:10:36 1999
+++ Completion/README Mon Mar 1 14:15:14 1999
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
Core:
The basic functions and files to be sourced. You will certainly need
- these, and will most likely not feel like altering them (or, in some
- cases, even reading them, unless you are a shell wizard). The files are:
+ these, and will most likely not want to alter them --- if you do, it
+ would probably help to give your version a different name. The files
+ are:
compinit
As already described, this is not a function, but is sourced once
(with the `source' or `.' commands) to set up the completion system.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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