From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26881 invoked from network); 1 Mar 1999 13:32:51 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Mar 1999 13:32:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 28669 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 1999 13:32:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5578 Received: (qmail 28661 invoked from network); 1 Mar 1999 13:32:28 -0000 Message-Id: <9903011316.AA46901@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: README In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:23:32 NFT." <199903011323.OAA14207@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:16:37 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson 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 Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy