Re: Es and autocompleting

[Paul Haahr <haahr@jivetech.com>]

> |  But I find a little incomodity in interactive use. It has
> |  autocompleting for files, but not for commands. I have encountered
> |  this feature in other shells and it seems to me very pleasant for
> |  large command names.
> 
> Um, do you frequently have to type command names so long that this is
> an issue?  When I observe people using this feature, it seems to me
> that they use it more to remind themselves of the name of a command
> they have half forgotten.

Which isn't a bad purpose at all.

I guess I've switched from an anti-completion to pro-completion over the
years.  Since I switched, I've moved to using much longer, easier to
remember (though harder to type) command names.  I consider that a good
thing.

I still don't think completion should be in the shell, but that's an
architecture issue, not functionality.  Which is why I've run all my
shells from inside emacs for the past five or so years.

(Running emacs probably makes me a heretic on this list, and certainly
it is a big change from what I advocated years ago.)

--p