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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


      reply	other threads:[~1999-03-01 13:32 UTC|newest]

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1999-03-01 13:23 Sven Wischnowsky
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