From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1580 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 11:46:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 11:46:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4883 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2000 11:46:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9346 Received: (qmail 4876 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 11:46:04 -0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: _a2ps completion In-Reply-To: <200001181130.MAA00030@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> from Sven Wischnowsky at "Jan 18, 2000 12:30:29 pm" To: Sven Wischnowsky Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:46:00 +0000 (GMT) CC: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk, Akim Demaille X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL65 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram 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. Where does it end? Least surprise is the key. -zefram